The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. They were mainly clerics at or from the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church through song, poetry and performance, often within a structured carnivalesque setting such as the Feast of Fools.[1] Carmina Burana (Latin for Songs from Beuern (Beuern is short for Benediktbeuern) is the name given to a manuscript of 254[1] poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical. They were written principally in Medieval Latin; a few in Middle High German, and some with traces of Old French or Provençal. Some are macaronic, a mixture of Latin and German or French vernacular.[2] Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanæ cantoribus et choris cantandæ comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images). Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last movements of the piece are called Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) and start with the very well known O Fortuna.[3] Here is a performance ... in the spirit of musicians busking in the market square ... https://youtube/watch?v=PJNp5UKRtbQ NOTES: 1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliard 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana 3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_(Orff)
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