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To: Knitting A Conundrum; Cogadh na Sith
It was O Fortuna, from the Carminia Burana

That was it, thanks. I love the lyrics that you posted (ever since British Lit I, I've been a sucker for good poetry, which is precisely what those lyrics are, IMHO), to be honest one of the biggest barriers to opera for me is the fact that, for much of it, I simply don't understand the words. Darn it, you've got me playing Carl Orff and looking up translations of the Carmina Burana manuscript!

14 posted on 12/13/2006 9:46:54 AM PST by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: Señor Zorro

And it is cool to remember that the texts of the Carmina Burana were written by medieval college students messing around when they should have been studying...

There is a line in O Fortuna which that translation smoothed out, but in colloquial English could probably be translated something like, "Dang, I lost my shirt again!"

Sounds better in the Latin, though. And Orff's music is wonderful.


15 posted on 12/13/2006 3:29:57 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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