Christianity in SCA cookery. was Re: [Sca-cooks] pre-Columbianfoods

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- "Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl at nac.net> wrote:

> When you sing that to the score of the "Carmina
> Burana", 
> do you use the music as originally written by
> Carl Orff, 
> or the Ray Manzarek contemporary version (A&M
> CS-4945 
> [4-track], or AMLX64945 [CD])?  

Ummmm, Vincenzo, Orff didn't originally write the
Carmina Burana, he took the various parts of the
original and created his own variations of it.

The original Carmina Burana is a collection of
poems, songs, and short plays found in
Benediktbeuern, a Benedictine abbey about 100 km
south of Munich, in 1803. This manuscript was of
13th century German origin and contained
approximately 250 poems, and other pieces. When
Johann Andreas Schmeller published the collection
in 1847, he gave it the title of "Carmina
Burana." This name means 'songs of Beuren,'
though it has since been discovered that the
manuscript did not originate there, and may have
come from Seckau.  Although the manuscript dates
from the thirteenth century, most of it was
written in the twelfth. This was a period of
peace and prosperity in comparison with the years
of war which preceded it. The majority of the
Carmina Burana is written in Latin, which was the
standard language of literacy at the time. There
are, however, many pieces written in Middle High
German, which shows the blossoming influence of
vernacular languages on literature which began
during this time. This collection is the most
important and comprehensive source for both early
German literature and goliardic verse.

Huette

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shall never cease to be amused.

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