Carmina Burana
Subtitle: cantiones profanae
By: Carl Orff ; original text with introduction, facing vocabularies, translation, and essays by Judith Lynn Sebesta ; also featuring literary translation by Jeffrey M. Duban, new illustrations by Thom Kapheim.
Contributors: Sebesta, Judith Lynn.; Duban, Jeffrey M., 1949-
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wauconda, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Orff, Carl, 1895-; Orff, Carl, 1895- -- Illustrations.; Cantatas, Secular -- Texts.
Genres: Illustrations.; Texts.
Description: Carl Orff's 24 selections from 200 poems of the Carmina Burana celebrate the universal range of human emotion and experience: passion, longing, exuberance, humor, rebellion, ennui, resignation. Now tender, now tragic; secular yet reverent; the poems of the carmina touch the chords of our purest and darkest spirituality.

An excellent resource for the student, the performer, the audience and the general reader, this dual language edition provides two moving translations from the original Latin, informative essays, and facing vocabulary. This text will enrich understanding and heighten appreciation of these beloved medieval poems.
Notes: In Latin (parts in medieval German and French) with English translation.
Discography: p. 141-142.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144).
Text compiled by the composer from a 13th century source.
"Reprint of the Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 1983 edition with new, original illustrations, updated bibiliography, and list of available recordings"--T.p. verso.