What is Carmina Burana?
[[Image:CarminaBurana wheel.jpg|thumb|right]] '''Carmina Burana''' is the name given to a collection of [[text]]s from the [[11th century|11th]] and [[12th century]]. There are over 240 texts in the collection, most of them written in Latin, some in [[Middle High German]]. Most of the texts are [[moral]] or satirical in nature. There are also texts about [[Spring (season)|spring]], or about [[love]]. Some of them are [[drinking song]]s, some of them were used as [[Minnesang]]. Some of the songs contain hints for the melodies. For some, the melodies can be reconstructed. The texts were written down around 1230. This happened either in an [[abbey]] in [[Styria]], or near [[Brixen]]. They were discovered by [[Johann Christoph von Aretin]] in [[Benediktbeuern Abbey]] in [[1803]]. Today, they are in the [[Bavarian State Library]] in [[Munich]]. There they can be found there as '''Codex Buranus''', with the signature clm 4660/4660a. [[Johann Andreas Schmeller]] edited them and published them as ''Carmina Burana – Lieder aus Benediktbeuern''. [[Carl Orff]] took 24 of them as ''Carmina Burana''. He wrote the [[music]] for them. The work was first performed in 1937 in the [[Opera house]] in [[Frankfurt am Main]]. Together with his works ''Catulli Carmina'' and ''Trionfo di Afrodite'' he made a work containing all three, called ''Trionfi''. Trionfi is performed much less than the Carmina Burana alone, though. ==Other websites== * [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/CarminaBurana/bur_intr.html Complete original text (without translation) from Biblioteca Augustana] * [http://www.tylatin.org/extras/cb1.html Text with translations from Teach Yourself Latin] * [http://www.athenapub.com/14carmina.htm Athena Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224221332/http://www.athenapub.com/14carmina.htm |date=2017-12-24 }} * [http://epistolary.org/1643.html Carmina Burana: An Analysis of Perfection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514052723/http://epistolary.org/1643.html |da