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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").
In a talk about book collecting, titled "Unpacking My Library" from Illuminations, Walter Benjamin cites the expression in its short form, noting that the words are often intended as a general statement about books; Benjamin's book collector, by way of contrast, applies them to himself and to the specific copies he collects.
Magnificats, one included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) Jacquet of Mantua: 1483 1559 Magnificats, e.g. two in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) Loyset Piéton? fl. c. 1530 Magnificat included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) Ludwig Senfl: c. 1490 1543 Magnificats (Tonus I-VIII) John Taverner ...
Canticum Canticorum (Song of Solomon) from 1584 is a cycle of 29 motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.Originally titled Motettorum - Liber Quartus, this Renaissance work is one of Palestrina's largest collections of Sacred motets.
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.
Taedet animam meam (motet; Job 10:1–7) Missa Pro Defunctis (Mass for the Dead) With the Council of Trent, the liturgy of the Requiem Mass was standardized. Victoria sets all of the Requiem Mass sections except the Dies Irae sequence. Introit; Kyrie; Gradual; Offertory; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Communion; Versa est in luctum cithara mea (motet; Job ...
De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) is an unfinished collection of biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th-century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. These biographies are a set of Lives similar in idea to Plutarch's Parallel Lives. The works were unfinished.
A page from the Capirola Lutebook. He was probably from Brescia, and is known to have lived in that city for several periods of his life, although he was in Venice in 1517 and for some time after that, the period during which the illuminated manuscript was prepared.