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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Tempus est iocundum
 (Sung text for setting by C. Orff)
 Matches base text
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  ITA SPA
Tempus est iocundum,
o virgines,
modo congaudete
vos iuvenes.

Oh - oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Mea me comfortat
promissio,
mea me deportat
negatio.

Oh - oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Tempore brumali
vir patiens,
animo vernali
lasciviens.

Oh - oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Mea mecum ludit
virginitas,
mea me detrudit
simplicitas.

Oh - oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Veni, domicella,
cum gaudio;
veni, veni, pulchra,
iam pereo.

Oh - oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Composition:

    Set to music by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Tempus est iocundum", 1935-6 [ soprano, baritone, chorus, and children's chorus ], from Carmina Burana, no. 22

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Giunto è il tempo felice (Soprano e Baritono, Coro and Coro infantile)", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , "Es un tiempo alegre", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-27
Line count: 45
Word count: 116

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