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Carmina Burana

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Carmina Burana, a compilation of 228 Latin and German poems, discovered in the monastery of Benediktbeuern in 1803, whence it is also known as the ‘Benediktbeuern manuscript’. It was probably written c.1230, and is the work of three compilers. It contains works corresponding to three categories of poetry written by the 12th-cent. troubadours: moral-satirical poems; love poems; and poems of camaraderie, many of them drinking-songs. It is the most important collection of Goliardic Latin poetry. Carl Orff used a selection for his scenic cantata Carmina Burana (1935–6).

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carmina burana

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carmina burana see Goliardic songs .

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