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Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images").
Matthaeus Platearius was a physician from the medical school at Salerno, and is thought [1] to have produced a twelfth-century Latin manuscript on medicinal herbs titled "Circa Instans" (also known as "The Book of Simple Medicines"), later translated into French as "Le Livre des simples medecines".
The Planctus (de obitu) Karoli ("Lament [on the Death] of Charlemagne"), also known by its incipit A solis ortu (usque ad occidua) ("From the rising of the sun [to the setting]"), is an anonymous medieval Latin planctus eulogising Charlemagne, written in accented verse by a monk of Bobbio shortly after his subject's death in 814. [1]
Timor mortis conturbat me is a Latin phrase commonly found in late medieval Scottish and English poetry, translating to "fear of death disturbs me". The phrase comes from a responsory of the Catholic Office of the Dead , in the third Nocturn of Matins : [ 1 ]
In pectore (Latin for 'in the breast/heart') is a term used in the Catholic Church for an action, decision, or document which is meant to be kept secret. It is most often used when there is a papal appointment to the College of Cardinals without a public announcement of the name of that cardinal.
Mundi homines stupidos, et pectora caeca, rebellis. Et quia sic nostram complerent crimina pellem, Virginis in corpus voluit demittere coelo Ipse Deus prolem, quam nunciet angelus almae Matri, quo miseros contracta sorde lavaret. I myself saw the high God wishing to punish the stupid men of the earth and the blind heart of the rebel.
Magnificat anima mea for double chorus and orchestra Hieronymus (III) Praetorius: 1614 1629 Magnificat I. toni (organ, formerly attributed to Hieronymus (I) Praetorius) Johann Erasmus Kindermann: 1616 1655 Intonatio Magnificat 4. Toni and Magnificat Octavi Toni in Harmonia Organica 6th verse (Gloria) of Magnificat Octavi Toni ⓘ Matthias Weckmann
The incipit is "Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes" (As the deer desires the fountains) followed by a second part (secunda pars) "Sitivit anima mea" (My soul thirsts). It was published in 1604 in Motecta festorum, Liber 2 , and has become one of Palestrina's most popular motets, regarded as a model of Renaissance polyphony , expressing spiritual ...