50+ Music<p>"O Fortuna" is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medievalLatin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medievalLatin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Goliardic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goliardic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> which is part of the collection known as the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CarminaBurana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarminaBurana</span></a>, written in the early 13th century. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RomanAndGreekMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanAndGreekMythology</span></a>. In 1935–36, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OFortuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OFortuna</span></a> was set to music by German composer <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CarlOrff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlOrff</span></a> as a part of "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FortunaImperatrixMundi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FortunaImperatrixMundi</span></a>", the opening and closing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movement</span></a> of his <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cantata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cantata</span></a> Carmina Burana. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRHJFxUxGEU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=LRHJFxUxGE</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p>