Carmina Burana is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century.
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10 Facts About Carmina Burana
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Twenty-four poems in Carmina Burana were set to music in 1936 by Carl Orff as Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis.
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Carmina Burana is a manuscript written in 1230 by two different scribes in an early gothic minuscule on 119 sheets of parchment.
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Today Carmina Burana scholars have several different ideas about the manuscript's place of origin.
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Generally, the works contained in the Carmina Burana can be arranged into four groups according to theme:.
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Carmina Burana contains numerous poetic descriptions of a raucous medieval paradise, for which the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, known for his advocation of the blissful life, is even taken as an authority on the subject .
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Carmina Burana transferred it to the Bavarian State Library in Munich where it currently resides .
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The first collected edition of the Carmina Burana was not published until 1847, almost 40 years after Aretin's discovery.
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Carmina Burana was able to revise illegible portions of the text by comparing them to similar works.
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About one-quarter of the poems in the Carmina Burana are accompanied in the manuscript by music using unheighted, staffless neumes, an archaic system of musical notation that by the time of the manuscript had largely been superseded by staffed neumes.
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