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

[Martin G. Diehl]

Ariane H wrote:
> 
> ahrenshav at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >--- "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...
> >
> 
> Several of the poems are also set to music: there 
> are neumes in the manuscript.  If you want an idea 
> of what the "original" music sounded like, there 
> have been several recordings done by early music 
> ensembles...my personal favorite is the one by the 
> Boston Camerata.
> 
> And besides, the quotation that started all this - 
> "O tempora! o mores!" - is *not* from the Carmina 
> Burana, but from Cicero's famous oration 
> "In Catilinam" (the prosecution speech from a 
> trial against Catiline, accused of conspiracy 
> against the Roman Republic)....that predates the 
> C.B. by over a millennium.  (Not to be confused 
> with the famous "O fortuna, velut luna" that opens 
> Orff's oratorio.)

I wasn't confused ... just trying to make a funny.  <g>  

OTOH, perhaps during a feast, wisdom from the kitchen 
_should_ be sung in Latin to the music of ... 

[snip]

> Vittoria

Vincenzo

-- 
Martin G. Diehl