Selections From the 'Carmina Burana'

This is a selection from the 13the century collection of secular latin poems. Some are serious (eg Crusade poems) but the majority are light, including many love poems. A number of items from the Carmina are well known as text for Carl Orff's 'Scenic Cantata'.

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A former language-teacher and technical journalist, David Parlett

began freelancing in 1975 as a games inventor and author of books on

games, a field in which he has built up an impressive international

reputation. He is an accredited consultant on gaming terminology to the

New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) and regularly advises on

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(1979). David Parlett is a native of South London, where he still

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