http://vod.lpes.tyc.edu.tw/vod/files/2_400df694bd3c57fa34de7d2d031d7ae3.mp3
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Gu Du
2007-05-17 00:17:54 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply]
(The background music that often appears in the anime Death Note, and that I often heard on television before)
Reposting an introduction: (Because reposts are everywhere online, the original source is almost impossible to trace; a quick search turns up a huge pile, so I won’t indicate the source here either.)
—-Have you seen pop king Michael Jackson’s MTVs?
——Have you seen the film Natural Born Killers?
——Or have you ever heard boxer Holyfield’s entrance music?……
Then you should not forget a majestic and imposing chorus—that is the opening section of Carmina Burana, one of the most popular classical music works of the 20th century (also known as The Songs of Beuren).
A 20th-Century Choral Masterpiece
Carmina Burana, also called The Songs of Beuren, is an immortal masterpiece in the history of music, with profound cultural depth. These poems and dramas come from the itinerant poets of the 13th and 14th centuries, wandering scholars and clerics throughout medieval England, France, and Germany, renowned for writing satirical verse and poetry praising wine and a life of revelry and dissipation. Carmina Burana embodies the creative style of these wandering poets. The poems vary widely in theme and style: among them are drinking songs, solemn love poems and wanton love songs, as well as religious poems and pastoral lyrics, and also satirical poems aimed at the church and the government. When composer Orff read Carmina Burana in 1935, he was deeply shaken; with rough, powerful, passionate music, he endowed this strange collection of poems with a new and eternal life. Orff’s Carmina Burana was completed in 1936, and its full title is Carmina Burana: secular songs composed for solo voices, chorus, instruments, and wondrous stage scenes. It is a grand “scenic cantata,” with a huge scoring that includes soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, a large chorus containing a small choir and a children’s chorus, and a full orchestra with two pianos and a dazzling array of percussion instruments. This magnificent work received its premiere in Frankfurt, Germany on June 8, 1937. It led people into an utterly different world; its magical music awakened the impulse toward joy in human nature with unimaginable force. Since its appearance and the preservation of recordings, it has remained one of the most stirring and exhilarating classical choral works. It is also important material for testing the strength and coordination of conductors, orchestras, and singers.
Carmina Burana is a mysterious thirteenth-century manuscript that lay hidden for centuries in a Bavarian monastery, unknown to the world until it was revealed and shocked everyone. It is, as far as we know, the most completely preserved and most artistically valuable medieval poem collection. It seems to come from heaven, rather than being a human product.
The twentieth-century German composer Carl Orff (1895—1982), who lived for a long time in Bavaria, selected 25 poems from this manuscript and set them to music as this Carmina Burana, divided into three themes: “Spring,” “Wine,” and “Love.”
The introductory poem is grand and solemn, as if the composer were trying to build a temple through chanting and attentive listening; the first part of the main work, “Spring,” is brisk and bright yet infused with a distant spaciousness, with male and female choral parts alternating like the changing of day and night in the order of the seasons; the second part, “In the Tavern,” is a scene of worldly life, using falsetto and modulations in a performer’s style in the singing, as if depicting the drunk and dissolute condition of people at a masked gathering; but strangely, over the scene of revelry there seems to pass a chill, as of ghosts. In the third part, “Love,” there is the release of longing for love and the sorrowful praise of love, as well as a plain and simple singing of desire; among these, the female vocal line “In truitina” (In the balance) is magnificent yet tragically beautiful, and has already become a classic staple of concerts.
Composer Carl Orff, while inheriting classical compositional technique, added new-style melody. Under the influence of “Expressionism,” he employed elements of neoprimitivism, and in rhythm he intensified the percussion component, enabling Carmina Burana to combine medieval minstrelsy and modern chant with remarkable perfection.
Carmina Burana is full of astonishing elements and drama; it unfolds in bold sweeps and sudden closures, containing both heroic cries and gentle arias, like a surging torrent crashing against rocks with thunderous sound, and like a gurgling brook winding toward a soft grassy bank. The orchestra and the choral singing reflect and illuminate each other; the shocking percussion is like the summons of fate, with a powerful effect of striking the soul. Carmina Burana is a hymn to life, as if under the watchful gaze of a god in the shadows. Guided by its three themes, it subtly touches on motives such as “faith” and “death.” Its tonality contains both secular joy and an epic grandeur. What lies beneath it as the true motive is pity for fleeting human life, regret, and lamentation. To use a line from Rilke to describe this work: “The true god of compassion, when he comes, is majestic, his light/ radiantly spreading around him, like the gods./ Stronger than the wind that blows a safe ship.”
unic
2007-05-18 15:55:36 Anonymous 222.82.226.29 [Reply]
I’m so shocked I don’t know what to say!
I had never heard it as the one here; only just now did I finally hear it, and it turns out to be this piece!
I finished reading the introduction.
The Middle Ages, wandering poets, music……!
Sigh, sigh~~!
Where can I get this piece???
Gu Du
2007-05-18 19:09:30 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply]
I bought a set: http://www.joyo.com/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu701510&source=w-90003370, very good.
Among them, “CARL ORFF KURT EICHHORN CARMINA BURANA Orff Carmina Burana / interview recording”
If you search online for BURANA or Carmina Burana, you can find quite a lot.
Reposting an introduction: (Because reposts are everywhere online, the original source is almost impossible to trace; a quick search turns up a huge pile, so I won’t indicate the source here either.)
—-Have you seen pop king Michael Jackson’s MTVs?
——Have you seen the film Natural Born Killers?
——Or have you ever heard boxer Holyfield’s entrance music?……
Then you should not forget a majestic and imposing chorus—that is the opening section of Carmina Burana, one of the most popular classical music works of the 20th century (also known as The Songs of Beuren).
A 20th-Century Choral Masterpiece
Carmina Burana, also called The Songs of Beuren, is an immortal masterpiece in the history of music, with profound cultural depth. These poems and dramas come from the itinerant poets of the 13th and 14th centuries, wandering scholars and clerics throughout medieval England, France, and Germany, renowned for writing satirical verse and poetry praising wine and a life of revelry and dissipation. Carmina Burana embodies the creative style of these wandering poets. The poems vary widely in theme and style: among them are drinking songs, solemn love poems and wanton love songs, as well as religious poems and pastoral lyrics, and also satirical poems aimed at the church and the government. When composer Orff read Carmina Burana in 1935, he was deeply shaken; with rough, powerful, passionate music, he endowed this strange collection of poems with a new and eternal life. Orff’s Carmina Burana was completed in 1936, and its full title is Carmina Burana: secular songs composed for solo voices, chorus, instruments, and wondrous stage scenes. It is a grand “scenic cantata,” with a huge scoring that includes soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, a large chorus containing a small choir and a children’s chorus, and a full orchestra with two pianos and a dazzling array of percussion instruments. This magnificent work received its premiere in Frankfurt, Germany on June 8, 1937. It led people into an utterly different world; its magical music awakened the impulse toward joy in human nature with unimaginable force. Since its appearance and the preservation of recordings, it has remained one of the most stirring and exhilarating classical choral works. It is also important material for testing the strength and coordination of conductors, orchestras, and singers.
Carmina Burana is a mysterious thirteenth-century manuscript that lay hidden for centuries in a Bavarian monastery, unknown to the world until it was revealed and shocked everyone. It is, as far as we know, the most completely preserved and most artistically valuable medieval poem collection. It seems to come from heaven, rather than being a human product.
The twentieth-century German composer Carl Orff (1895—1982), who lived for a long time in Bavaria, selected 25 poems from this manuscript and set them to music as this Carmina Burana, divided into three themes: “Spring,” “Wine,” and “Love.”
The introductory poem is grand and solemn, as if the composer were trying to build a temple through chanting and attentive listening; the first part of the main work, “Spring,” is brisk and bright yet infused with a distant spaciousness, with male and female choral parts alternating like the changing of day and night in the order of the seasons; the second part, “In the Tavern,” is a scene of worldly life, using falsetto and modulations in a performer’s style in the singing, as if depicting the drunk and dissolute condition of people at a masked gathering; but strangely, over the scene of revelry there seems to pass a chill, as of ghosts. In the third part, “Love,” there is the release of longing for love and the sorrowful praise of love, as well as a plain and simple singing of desire; among these, the female vocal line “In truitina” (In the balance) is magnificent yet tragically beautiful, and has already become a classic staple of concerts.
Composer Carl Orff, while inheriting classical compositional technique, added new-style melody. Under the influence of “Expressionism,” he employed elements of neoprimitivism, and in rhythm he intensified the percussion component, enabling Carmina Burana to combine medieval minstrelsy and modern chant with remarkable perfection.
Carmina Burana is full of astonishing elements and drama; it unfolds in bold sweeps and sudden closures, containing both heroic cries and gentle arias, like a surging torrent crashing against rocks with thunderous sound, and like a gurgling brook winding toward a soft grassy bank. The orchestra and the choral singing reflect and illuminate each other; the shocking percussion is like the summons of fate, with a powerful effect of striking the soul. Carmina Burana is a hymn to life, as if under the watchful gaze of a god in the shadows. Guided by its three themes, it subtly touches on motives such as “faith” and “death.” Its tonality contains both secular joy and an epic grandeur. What lies beneath it as the true motive is pity for fleeting human life, regret, and lamentation. To use a line from Rilke to describe this work: “The true god of compassion, when he comes, is majestic, his light/ radiantly spreading around him, like the gods./ Stronger than the wind that blows a safe ship.”
unic
I had never heard it as the one here; only just now did I finally hear it, and it turns out to be this piece!
I finished reading the introduction.
The Middle Ages, wandering poets, music……!
Sigh, sigh~~!
Where can I get this piece???
Gu Du
Among them, “CARL ORFF KURT EICHHORN CARMINA BURANA Orff Carmina Burana / interview recording”
If you search online for BURANA or Carmina Burana, you can find quite a lot.
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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