![]() If I had to choose the five most “epic” pieces ever composed, I think O Fortuna from Carmina Burana would be one of them. Personally, I love this piece because it is so simple yet so dramatic. Sorry, but all I can do is leave you with that thought, because I do not have an answer yet. But why, then, did the music directors for those films choose the song? There must be something deeper that we hear in the music. I like to think about stuff like that: why can we envision fire when we hear this music? Well, maybe it is because we have been exposed to the movies that pair O Fortuna with explosions. Its raw intensity has been used in countless thrillers and suspense films, often in the most climactic scenes, to represent passion, chaos, and anything huge and fiery. It has come to be synonymous with anything cataclysmic or devastating. The piece has been hackneyed in pop culture: movies, commercial, etc. ![]() Carl Orff only selected 24 poems out of the total 254 to be in the cantata. The text of the music comes from a set of Medieval poems and dramatic writings by the same name (which is why they are all in Latin). I chose to right a review of this piece because a) everyone has heard it and b) I have had the pleasure of performing it multiple times and still love it.Ĭarmina Burana is a cantata, composed in 1935-1936 by Carl Orff. ![]()
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