Sipsey Street Irregulars: Sunday Jams

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Sunday Jams - Carl Orff

Carmina Burana's most well known piece is, obviously, O Fortuna. I am sure you recognize it from dozens of places in modern film and TV. It is overly complex and dramatic and seems to universally resonate with something forgotten deep inside. The poetry of it and of the entire concert is well worth the listen.

O Fortuna (O Fortune)
velut luna (like the moon)
statu variabilis (you are changeable)
semper crescis (always waxing)
aut decrescis; (and waning;)
vita detestabilis (hateful life)
nunc obdurat (first oppresses)
et tunc curat (and then soothes)
ludo mentis aciem, (as fancy takes it)
egestatem, (poverty)
potestatem (and power)
dissolvit ut glaciem. (it melts them like ice.)

Sors immanis (Fate - monstrous)
et inanis, (and empty)
rota tu volubilis, (you whirling wheel)
status malus, (you are malevolent)
vana salus (well-being is vain)
semper dissolubilis, (and always fades to nothing)
obumbrata (shadowed)
et velata (and veiled)
mihi quoque niteris; (you plague me too;)
nunc per ludum (now through the game)
dorsum nudum (I bring my bare back)
fero tui sceleris. (to your villainy.)

Sors salutis (Fate is against me)
et virtutis (in health)
michi nunc contraria, (and virtue)
est affectus (driven on)
et defectus (and weighted down)
semper in angaria. (always enslaved.)
Hac in hora (So at this hour)
sine mora (without delay)
corde pulsum tangite; (pluck the vibrating strings;)
quod per sortem (since Fate)
sternit fortem, (strikes down the strong)
mecum omnes plangite! (everyone weep with me!)

From Metrolyrics.com

8 comments:

Rusty Gunner said...: I've always enjoyed the Carmina Burana, although I prefer "Tempus est Iocundum" to "O Fortuna".; September 11, 2016 at 6:39 AM
Anonymous said...: ATF pushing government app to report suspect gun owners

http://personalliberty.com/atf-pushing-government-app-report-suspect-gun-owners/; September 11, 2016 at 10:32 AM
Anonymous said...: What's the point of all these music videos on the sipseystreet blog? I don't get it.

- Old Greybeard; September 11, 2016 at 10:47 AM
Darwin is a Harsh Mistress said...: Okay, now that you've gone and reminded me about this, which movement features the lament of a maiden wishing for a passing knight to defleur her virginal self?

lulz

Orff is the meisteralpha of the Brutalist style.

Too bad he chocked in his personal moment of truth.; September 12, 2016 at 12:17 AM
Dutchman6 said...: Greybeard,

Two main reasons.

1. It is my blog and I choose the content.

2. I think that expecially in the prepper and political communities we tend to be a bit 2 dimensional in that we demand all one type of content. I do not think that anyone does all of one thing all the time. You would go insane. If memory serves, I believe your line in the sand was SEC football. I personally would find it hard to care less about the sport, but to each their own. If I can share some good tunes with the community on a day we should all be relaxing with family, I would call that a win. Life is simply too short not to be a little irreverent, or drink a little, or listen to good music once in a while.

BTW, I hate the recaptcha thing too, but there is nothing I can do about it. Either I moderate or I don't. And not moderating all of the heathen Mohammedans that show up would make this blog suck really quick. So, sorry.; September 12, 2016 at 9:17 AM
Jeff Dege said...: I've always preferred the original settings to Orff's pomposity.

My favorite, out of all of them, is "Ich was ein chint so wolgetan".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CNQ7jTNJ4

Ich was ein chint so wolgetan
virgo dum florebam;
do brist mich diu werlt al,
omnibus placebam.

I was once a good little girl,
when I was still a virgin;
all the world sung my praise,
everyone used to like me.

la wolde ih an die wisen gan
flores adunare,
do wolde mich ein ungetan
ibi deflorare

Once I strayed through the meadows
to pick flowers,
and a rough villain
came to break my flower.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Helium_Vola:Ich_Was_Ein_Chint_So_Wolgetan/en; September 12, 2016 at 11:15 AM
Rusty Gunner said...: I'm surprised I forgot this video.

https://youtu.be/nIwrgAnx6Q8; September 12, 2016 at 4:41 PM
Witold Pilecki said...: Matt,

I've heard that song a million times and never knew what it was. Although the BBC video was from 1994, that was an incredible rendition, arrangement, and production.
How vile must 13th century life have been to come up with that?

Thanks for the diversion.; September 15, 2016 at 2:03 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Sunday Jams - Carl Orff

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