Carmina Burana Pocket Guide 4: Medieval Piano?

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[bpe-music]

It's often hard enough to just have one piano in the orchestra, let alone two ^^

[wellthatwasfun]

Orff was a rock star. Just listen to the whole Carmina Burana (not just Oh Fortuna but the other pieces). You can easily adapt drums and elec guitars and you get prog rock from the 70s.

[Fernflote]

Um, there's not a single orchestral bar (or choral for that matter) in this whole wonderful opus that sounds or was intended to sound the least bit medieval. Please.

[CipherSphereqxc]

But isn't the baroque piano a harpsichord?

[BernardGreenberg]

While the piano may have been invented in the Baroque era, it was not used in classical music until the "Classica"l era (of Mozart and Haydn), and pianos with sustain pedals not until the nineteenth century.