![]() mixtures of Latin and a vernacular (here either German or French). The main language is Latin a few are in German or are macaronic, i.e. ![]() Most of the poems seem to have been intended to be sung. ![]() (iii) Songs connected with drinking and gambling. (ii) Love songs and songs celebrating the return of spring. (i) Moralistic and satirical poems, the former being concerned with the human condition and the world at large, the latter with abuses in the church. These poems, which come to more than two hundred in number but are never of any great length, can be roughly classified as follows: They form only a small part of the whole Carmina Burana, the name applied to a large collection of medieval poems which survive in a late medieval manuscript found in the early nineteenth century in southern Germany. The poems presented here are those which have been set to music by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982).
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