The 1994 publication of a new version of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, arranged for winds, percussion and choruses by Juan Vicente Mas Quiles, created new possibilities for the performance of Orff's monumental work. This dissertation serves as a guide to the study and performance of the Mas Quiles arrangement of Carmina Burana. Chapter One presents a brief discussion of Carl Orff and his Carmina Burana, followed in Chapter two by a short discussion of Mas Quiles' and the other significant transcriptions and arrangements of Carmina Burana, Chapter three contains a review of the literature pertinent to the study Carmina Burana. In Chapter Four a detailed examination and comparison of the original Orff score with the Mas Quiles arrangement provides a framework with which the conductor may study and compare the two scores in preparation for a performance of the Mas Quiles arrangement. The scoring of the Mas Quiles arrangement is masterful in that the arrangement so closely maintains the textural, musical and aesthetic integrity of the work. The Mas Quiles version includes all of the movements, and all of the original elements: choruses, soloists and orchestral parts are preserved intact. The only substantive change is the judicious use of winds in place of the orchestral string parts. By comparison and analysis of Mas Quiles scoring techniques with the Orff original, the author concludes that the Mas Quiles arrangement is a viable and unique alternative to the Orff original and highly worthy of study and performance by conductors of advanced level ensembles.

[pt] No presente trabalho pretendo analisar as profundas mudanças que ocorrem no Ocidente Medieval do século XII e que foram notadas por Haskins como uma forma distinta de Renascimento. Bem como essas são representadas dentro do conjunto de textos satíricos, os Carmina Burana. Para isso mobilizarei um esforço, em um primeiro momento, para compreender a formulação do conceito de Renascimento Cultural, que é estabelecido em seus devidos contornos por Jakob Burckhardt e é utilizado por Haskins para pensar uma era de rompimentos e fluidez sociais, que eram atípicas a uma sociedade ligada a estabilidade que uma cultura agrária, conforme nos mostrou Ernst Gellner, possuía. Essa discussão de caráter historiográfico é importante para percebermos o momento de formulação de um conceito bem definido e totalmente explicativo e de outro modo apresentar uma instabilidade que não desmerece as formulações de 70 anos de historiografia, mas compreender uma outra via de explicação do real-passado que não age pela via conceitual, mas por uma outra via formativa da linguagem, isto é, a Metáfora. Dentro dessas compreensões pretendo levar, por um caminho híbrido, um esforço para demonstrar a formatividade desses versos, sua ambiência e como eles, por certa via, dão conta de uma experiência de real e assim demonstrar minha hipótese principal de ter nos textos risíveis dos Carmina Burana uma forma metafórica de construção de um conhecimento sobre o passado. / [en] In this paper we analyze the profound changes taking place in the twelfth century Medieval West and were noted by Haskins as a distinct form of Renaissance. And these are represented within the set of satirical texts, Carmina Burana. For this mobilizarei an effort, at first, to understand the formulation of the concept of Cultural Renaissance, which is established in their proper contours by Jakob Burckhardt and is used by Haskins to think an era of breakups and social fluidity, which were atypical to a company linked to stability that an agrarian culture, as we showed Ernst Gellner, possessed. This discussion of historiographical character is important to realize the time to formulate a well-defined concept and fully explanatory and otherwise present an instability that does not diminish the formulations of 70 years of history, but to understand another way of real-last explanation does not act via the conceptual, but another via formation of language, that is, the metaphor. Within these understandings intend to take, by a hybrid way, an effort to demonstrate the formativeness these verses, their surroundings and how they, in some way, realize a real experience and thus demonstrate my main hypothesis have the laughable texts of Carmina Burana a metaphoric way of building knowledge about the past.