The Nazi regime was at first nervous about the erotic tone of some of the poems, but eventually embraced the piece. Several performances were repeated elsewhere in Germany. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin. Shortly after the greatly successful premiere, Orff said the following to his publisher, Schott Music:Д®verything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. (one large and one small, although a subset of the large chorus may be used for the small chorus)Д¬armina Burana was first staged by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937 under conductor Bertil Wetzelsberger (1892вЂ“1967) with the CГ¤cilienchor Frankfurt, staging by Oskar WГ¤lterlin and sets and costumes by Ludwig Sievert.

Orff intended this aria for a lyric soprano, not a coloratura, so that the musical tensions would be more obvious.Д¬armina Burana is scored for a large orchestra consisting of: Also noted is the solo soprano aria, Dulcissime which demands extremely high notes. The baritone arias often demand high notes not commonly found in baritone repertoire, and parts of the baritone aria Dies nox et omnia are often sung in falsetto, a unique example in baritone repertoire.

Some of the solo arias pose bold challenges for singers: the only solo tenor aria, Olim lacus colueram, is often sung almost completely in falsetto to demonstrate the suffering of the character (in this case, a roasting swan). These constant rhythmic changes combined with the caesura create a very 'conversational' feel вЂ“ so much so that the rhythmic complexities of the piece are often overlooked. While the rhythmic arc in a section is taken as a whole, a measure of five may be followed by one of seven, to one of four, and so on, often with caesura marked between them. Over all, it sounds rhythmically straightforward and simple, but the metre will change freely from one measure to the next. Rhythm, for Orff as it was for Stravinsky, is often the primary musical element. In particular, Orff's music is very reminiscent of Stravinsky's earlier work, Les noces ( The Wedding). His shimmering orchestration shows a deference to Stravinsky. It is a common misconception that Orff based the melodies of Carmina Burana on neumeatic melodies while many of the lyrics in the Burana Codex are enhanced with neumes, almost none of these melodies had been deciphered at the time of Orff's composition, and none of them had served Orff as a melodic model. Orff was influenced melodically by late Renaissance and early Baroque models including William Byrd and Claudio Monteverdi. Carmina Burana avoids overt harmonic complexities, a fact which many musicians and critics have pointed out, such as Ann Powers of The New York Times. Carmina Burana contains little or no development in the classical sense, and polyphony is also conspicuously absent. Orff's style demonstrates a desire for directness of speech and of access. Problems playing this file? See media help. ' O Fortuna', the first poem in the Schmeller edition, completes this circle, forming a compositional frame for the work through being both the opening and closing movements. Within each scene, and sometimes within a single movement, the wheel of fortune turns, joy turning to bitterness, and hope turning to grief. (I shall reign, I reign, I have reigned, I am without a realm). The drawing of the wheel found on the first page of the Burana Codex includes four phrases around the outside of the wheel: Much of the compositional structure is based on the idea of the turning Fortuna Wheel.

Orff indicates attacca markings between all the movements within each scene. The selection covers a wide range of topics, as familiar in the 13th century as they are in the 21st century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust.Д¬armina Burana is structured into five major sections, containing 25 movements in total. Michel Hofmann was a young law student and an enthusiast of Latin and Greek he assisted Orff in the selection and organization of 24 of these poems into a libretto, mostly in secular Latin verse, with a small amount of Middle High German and Old French. In 1934, Orff encountered the 1847 edition of the Carmina Burana by Johann Andreas Schmeller, the original text dating mostly from the 11th or 12th century, including some from the 13th century. ' The Wheel of Fortune' from the Codex Buranus

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