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SKU: HL.49044677
ISBN 9783795706722. 7.0x9.75x0.827 inches. German.
Uber die Carmina Burana hinaus sind die Buhnenwerke von Carl Orff - darunter die gewichtigen Opern nach antiken Stoffen und das endzeitliche De temporum fine comoedia - nach wie vor zu entdecken. Interdisziplinar beleuchtet werden Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte, Asthetik, Satztechnik, Dramaturgie, Inszenierungsstile und Instrumententarium bis hin zur Kommerzialisierung von Orffs Musik in der Werbung.
SKU: HL.49008111
ISBN 9783795753474. 13.25x17.0x1.154 inches. German - English.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is amongst the most important compositions of the 20th century. Orff was fascinated by the original power and pictorial imagination of this medieval song collection, compiled in the 13th century in the German monastery of Benediktbeuern. ' The “Carmina Burana” are our Middle Ages', Orff said in 1970 in an interview. 'With “Carmina Burana” being played all over the world, it is not my music that's important but to comprehend the occidental power of this body of poetry and to let it work on our imagination.' According to the medieavalist Wolfgang Maaz it is Orff who, besides Umberto Eco, had the most signifant influence on the perception of the Middle Ages in the 20th century.. The autograph score is a fair copy written in blue ink throughout. Additional entries in pencil and coloured pencil turn this into a source of extraordinary significance for musicologists and amateurs alike.
SKU: HL.49041703
ISBN 9783254082206. 4.75x7.5x0.674 inches. German.
What a music that must be, music always played when Henry Maske entered the boxing ring, music played at Michael Jackson's stage shows, music still used for charity events and commercials? Understood and tolerated as a work of coded subversive character at the time of creation, misunderstood and met with hostility as musical evidence of the composer's concurring beliefs seventy years later - nothing can prove the topicality of this seemingly ahistorical piece better than the unique phenomenon of its history of reception.Although the Latin texts make it difficult to understand Carmina Burana, they are among the most frequently played works in the world of music. Taking account of documents of the composer, this book traces the genesis and reception of the work and discusses the growing popularity of Carmina Burana.
