[Steppes] Carmina Burana

William Meriic wmeriic at tx.rr.com
Wed Jun 10 20:48:25 PDT 2009


Well, often times people have a hard time understanding the ancient
languages found in the Carmina Burana poems (set to music by Orff in 1935).
This recent work attempts to make things clearer:

http://carmina.ytmnd.com/

Many of the Carmina Burana poems were written in a mixture of several
languages at once (like In Dulci Jubilo).  What is the technical term for a
work (song, poem, etc.) written in Latin, Swiss, and Munster?  Macaronic and
Cheese!  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_language).

Anonymous




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