Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 20 views

    My Notes

    Uploaded by

    jayiane
    Carl Orff was a German composer born in 1895 in Munich. He is best known for his cantata Carmina Burana, which premiered in 1937. Orff developed an influential approach to music education for children. Carmina Burana features text from a 13th century manuscript containing Latin and German songs and plays. Orff selected 24 songs and arranged them into a prologue, epilogue, and three sections depicting early spring, drunken feasting, and courtship. The music uses simple melodies, harmonies, and heavy percussion to give it a primal character.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    My Notes

    Uploaded by

    jayiane
    20 views1 page
    Carl Orff was a German composer born in 1895 in Munich. He is best known for his cantata Carmina Burana, which premiered in 1937. Orff developed an influential approach to music education for children. Carmina Burana features text from a 13th century manuscript containing Latin and German songs and plays. Orff selected 24 songs and arranged them into a prologue, epilogue, and three sections depicting early spring, drunken feasting, and courtship. The music uses simple melodies, harmonies, and heavy percussion to give it a primal character.

    Original Description:

    Notes for my final paper

    Original Title

    My notes

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Carl Orff was a German composer born in 1895 in Munich. He is best known for his cantata Carmina Burana, which premiered in 1937. Orff developed an influential approach to music education for children. Carmina Burana features text from a 13th century manuscript containing Latin and German songs and plays. Orff selected 24 songs and arranged them into a prologue, epilogue, and three sections depicting early spring, drunken feasting, and courtship. The music uses simple melodies, harmonies, and heavy percussion to give it a primal character.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    20 views1 page

    My Notes

    Uploaded by

    jayiane
    Carl Orff was a German composer born in 1895 in Munich. He is best known for his cantata Carmina Burana, which premiered in 1937. Orff developed an influential approach to music education for children. Carmina Burana features text from a 13th century manuscript containing Latin and German songs and plays. Orff selected 24 songs and arranged them into a prologue, epilogue, and three sections depicting early spring, drunken feasting, and courtship. The music uses simple melodies, harmonies, and heavy percussion to give it a primal character.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 1

    Background of composer:

    Carl Orff: ( July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer, best known for
    his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). In addition to his career as a composer, Orff
    developed an influential approach toward music education for children.
    Carl Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895. His family was Bavarian and was active
    in the Imperial German Army. His paternal grandfather was a Jew who converted to
    Catholicism.
    In 1911, at age 16, some of Orff's music was published.[6] Many of his youthful works
    were songs, often settings of German poetry. They fell into the style of Richard
    Strauss and other German composers of the day, but with hints of what would become
    Orff's distinctive musical language.
    In 1911/12, Orff wrote Zarathustra, Op. 14, an unfinished large work for baritone voice,
    three male choruses and orchestra, based on a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche's
    philosophical novel Also sprach Zarathustra. The following year, he composed an
    opera, Gisei, das Opfer (Gisei, the Sacrifice). Influenced by the
    French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, he began to use colorful, unusual
    combinations of instruments in his orchestration.

    Background of Carmina Burana:


    Carmina Burana is a cantata for orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists by the German
    composer Carl Orff that premiered in 1937 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
    Orff drew his text from a 13th-century manuscript containing songs and plays written
    in Latin and medieval German, which was discovered in 1803 at the Bavarian
    monastery of Benediktbeuern. Dubbed the Carmina Burana (“Songs of Beuern”) by the
    German philologist Johann Andreas Schmeller, the texts present a varied view of
    medieval life, including religious verses, social satires, and bawdy drinking songs.
    Although some of the verses were accompanied by archaic musical notation,
    confirming that they were indeed meant to be sung, that notation remained largely
    undeciphered, leaving Orff free to imagine his own musical settings. Orff selected 24
    songs, which he arranged into a prologue, an epilogue, and three parts of roughly equal
    length. The first part, “Primo Vere” (“In Early Spring”), presents youthful, energetic
    dances; the second part, “In Taberna” (“In the Tavern”), evokes drunken feasting and
    debauchery; and courtship and romantic love are the subject of the third part, “Cour
    d’Amours” (“Court of Love”). Throughout, simple orchestration, melodies,
    and harmonies combine with heavy rhythmic percussion to give the music a
    primeval, visceral character.

    You might also like