Klarinet Archive - Posting 000497.txt from 2010/11

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cloud Cuckoo Land
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:38:54 -0500

For a different take on the meaning of cucaniensis, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne

The writers of that article (and the one on Cloud Cuckoo Land) either don't
believe there's a connection between Cucania/Cockaigne and Cloud Cuckoo
Land, or haven't noticed the connection if there is one.

--Doug Sears, who has sung in the chorus of Carmina Burana and portrayed a
bibulous monk on stage more times than I can count. Wafna! Does this have
anything at all to do with clarinets?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Nichols" <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Cloud Cuckoo Land

True. In this case, though, I had a very specific piece of music in
mind. It's one of the songs from Orff's Carmina Burana, appropriately
titled "Ego Sum Abbas."

"Ego sum abbas cucaniensis" is Latin for "I am the abbot of
Cloud-Cuckoo-Land." It's a song about some crazy drunk guy in a
tavern (or, more precisely, sung by someone musically portraying a
crazy drunk guy in a tavern).

And wafna...well, that's apparently some kind of medieval expletive
that the singers repeat over and over again. :-)

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYt24lA-ew

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