The Rota Fortunae (Wheel of Fortune) as depicted in the Codex Buranus. There may be no greater sign of a piece of music’s cultural impact than how often it shows up in popular media like movies, shows ...

Carmina Burana is a tornado of human emotion and raw nature and primitive worship and erotic lust. Credit: Design by Anthony Keo When I mentioned on Instagram that I’m super psyched that Seattle ...

Cantus Buranus is the recording album by the German medieval revival band Corvus Corax that employs the medieval text Carmina Burana Cantus Buranus is a stage opera of eleven poems from Carmina Burana ...

“Carmina Burana” is like rock music of the early 20th century, explains Betsy Cook Weber, director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. With haunting medieval chants set to a spine-tingling composition, ...

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of only a handful of 20th century classical concert pieces that can claim to have become embedded in popular culture. Its opening movement in particular has featured ...