Carl Orff: Carmina Burana: SATB: Vocal Score

Large Version-Arranged for three soloists; Soprano Tenor and Baritone as well as the chorus SATB. Carl Orff s dramatic cantata Carmina Burana was originally designed as a theatre piece a 'scenic cantata' to be danced as well as sung and played. Already 38 when he began composing Carmina Burana Songs from Benediktbeuern Orff was nearly 42 when it finally was produced in 1936. Carmina Burana reflects the period when Orff finally turned his back on chromaticism and complex polyphony for a deliberately simplified style characterised by its rhythmic energy and the repetition of short melodic phrases supported by elemental block harmonies. In Latinand High German.