Carmina Burana Letras

Here are the lyrics for Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Contents
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)

1. O Fortuna 2. Fortune plango vulnera
I. Primo vere (In Springtime)

3. Veris leta facies (No strings and only a small chorus) 4. Omnia sol temperat 5. Ecce gratum
Uf dem anger (On the Lawn)

6. Tanz 7. Floret silva nobilis (Small and large choruses) 8. Chramer, gipdie varwe mir (Small and large choruses) [German] 9. Reie [German] 10. Were diu werlt alle min [German]
II. In Taberna (In the Tavern)

11. Estuans interius 12. Olim lacus colueram (No violins used) 13. Ego sum abbas (Only percussion and brass with chorus) 14. In taberna quando sumus
III. Cour d'amours (The Court of Love)

15. Amor volat undique (Boys chorus with soprano) 16. Dies, nox etomnia 17. Stetit puella 18. Circa mea pectora 19. Si puer cum puellula 20. Veni, veni, venias (Double chorus with 2 pianos & 6 percussionists) 21. In truitina 22. Tempus est iocundum (2 pianos, percussion and all vocalists except tenor) 23. Dulcissime
Blanziflor et Helena (Blanziflor and Helena)

24. Ave formosissima (Three glockenspiels with independent parts)
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune,Empress of the World)

25. O Fortuna (Fortune, Empress of the World)
FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI 1. O Fortuna (Chorus) (O Fortune)
O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem,

egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semperdissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!

2. Fortune plango vulnera (I bemoan the wounds of Fortune)
Fortune plango vulnera stillantibus ocellis quod suamichi munera subtrahit rebellis. Verum est, quod legitur, fronte capillata, sed plerumque sequitur Occasio calvata. In Fortune solio sederam elatus, prosperitatis vario flore coronatus; quicquid enim florui felix et beatus, nunc a summo corrui gloria privatus. Fortune rota volvitur: descendo minoratus; alter in altum tollitur;

nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice caveat ruinam! nam sub axelegimus Hecubam reginam.

PRIMO VERE (SPRING) 3. Veris leta facies (The merry face of spring)
Veris leta facies mundo propinatur, hiemalis acies victa iam fugatur, in vestitu vario Flora principatur, nemorum dulcisono que cantu celebratur. Flore fusus gremio Phebus novo more risum dat, hac vario iam stipate flore. Zephyrus nectareo spirans in odore. Certatim pro bravio curramus in amore. Cytharizatcantico dulcis Philomena, flore rident vario prata iam serena, salit cetus avium silve per amena, chorus promit virgin iam gaudia millena.

4. Omnia sol temperat (The sun warms everything)
Omnia sol temperat purus et subtilis, novo mundo reserat faciem Aprilis, ad amorem properat animus herilis et iocundis imperat deus puerilis. Rerum tanta novitas in solemni vere et veris auctoritas jubet nosgaudere; vias prebet solitas, et in tuo vere fides est et probitas

tuum retinere. Ama me fideliter, fidem meam noto: de corde totaliter et ex mente tota sum presentialiter absens in remota, quisquis amat taliter, volvitur in rota.

5. Ecce gratum (Chorus) (Behold, the pleasant spring)
Ecce gratum et optatum Ver reducit gaudia, purpuratum floret pratum, Sol serenat omnia. Iamiam cedanttristia! Estas redit, nunc recedit Hyemis sevitia. Iam liquescit et decrescit grando, nix et cetera; bruma fugit, et iam sugit Ver Estatis ubera; illi mens est misera, qui nec vivit, nec lascivit sub Estatis dextera. Gloriantur et letantur in melle dulcedinis, qui conantur, ut utantur premio Cupidinis: simus jussu Cypridis gloriantes et letantes pares esse Paridis.

UF DEM ANGER 6. Tanz (Dance) 7....