In 1980, I created an adaptation of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana utilizing my own translation. I reduced the gigantic orchestration to piano, soprano and baritone. It's an extremely challenging piece to perform (and I did back in 1980).

All of the files below are in PDF format. It's been taking me longer to transcribe them than I planned, so instead of delaying the process I've uploaded copies of my original chicken scratch from 1980. Eventually I hope to convert those into properly readable sheet music.

FORTUNE, CONSUMMATE EMPRESS

1 - Fortune reigning
2 - Though Fortune showers me with gifts

Part One
SPRINGTIME

3 - Let your heart be filled with joy
4 - Now the sun breaks through the cold
5 - Thank God Spring's here
6 - Dance
7 - Flowers bloom and multiply
8 - Sorry sir, this lipstick stinks
9a - Round dance
9b - Are those girls we see?
9c - Candy? Candy, little girl?
9b - Are those girls we see?
10 - If the world belonged to me

Part Two
IN A TAVERN

11 - Fraught with indecisive thought
12 - I once was quite a handsome swan
13 - I am the Pastor
14 - In a tavern underground

Part Three
COURS D'AMOUR

15 - Watch who first gets Cupid's dart
16 - Day and night and everything
17 - Little Miss Muffet
18 - How my heart is filled with air
19 - If Jack and Jill go up the hill
20 - Hurry, hurry, hurry up
21 - Pain and longing
22 - Love is now in season
23 - Hey, pretty boy

KISS ME, MARY, QUEEN OF SAINTS

24 - Glory be to virgin thighs

FORTUNE, CONSUMMATE EMPRESS

25 - Fortune reigning

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