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.