In taberna quando sumus
Medieval Latin poem; part of the Carmina Burana
In taberna quando sumus
"In taberna quando sumus" (English: "When we are in the tavern") is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written between the 12th and early 13th centuries. It was set to music in 1935/36 by German composer Carl Orff as part of his Carmina Burana which premiered at Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937. Within Orff's Carmina Burana, this drinking song is the 14th movement in section 2, In Taberna. The poem is largely in trochaic tetrameter. The poem parodies Christian liturgy, with its sequence of drinking toasts mirroring the votive masses and prayers of the Roman Missal, while its closing curse adapts Psalm 68:29 of the Vulgate.
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