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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").
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.
Heroic couplets. The first complete English translation published, and the standard translation of the 18th century. 1743: Anonymous: Of the Nature of Things at the Internet Archive "Plates by Guernier." Prose. Facing Latin text. 1805: Good, John Mason: The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem: Vol 1 at the Internet Archive, Vol 2 at the Internet ...
Tantum ergo" is the incipit of the last two verses of Pange lingua, a Medieval Latin hymn composed by St Thomas Aquinas circa A.D. 1264. The "Genitori genitoque" and "Procedenti ab utroque" portions are adapted from Adam of Saint Victor's sequence for Pentecost. [1] The hymn's Latin incipit literally translates to "Therefore so great".
The other three motets are based on three responsories for the Holy Week: [3] "Vinea mea electa" (Vine that I loved as my own), a responsory for the matins of Good Friday, "Tenebrae factae sunt" (Darkness fell upon the Earth), a responsory for the matins of Holy Saturday, and "Tristis est anima mea" (Sad is my soul and sorrowful), a responsory ...
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.
peccaminum proclamant tundentes pectora poplite flexo clamant hic: Ave Maria. Prelati et barones comites incliti religiosi omnes atque presbyteri milites mercatores cives marinari burgenses piscatores praemiantur ibi. Rustici aratores nec non notarii advocati scultores cuncti ligni fabri sartores et sutores nec non lanifici
O vos omnes is a responsory, originally sung as part of Roman Catholic liturgies for Holy Week, and now often sung as a motet.The text is adapted from the Latin Vulgate translation of Lamentations 1:12.