He takes as an example the use of the music in an Applebee's advertisement which changes the words to be about a new promotion, drawing on the arrangement simply for its signification of the vernacular concept of "epic" (an "epic deal"). In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising, Clem highlights how the poem's themes like human struggle and fate are commonly divorced from popular usage.
Horton calls it "a work of brilliance" that "may have been spoiled by its popularization", used "often as a jingle, detached in any meaningful way from its powerful message". In 2009, it topped a BBC list of most widely heard classical tracks, with BBC Radio 2 head of programming calling it "a timeless piece of music that continues to be played, performed and loved over 70 years after its composition." A Radio Netherlands documentary attributes its popular appeal to the combination of choruses, large orchestra, interesting instrument combinations, tight rhythm, and the extent to which it is singable and memorable. "O Fortuna" in particular has become one of the most recognizable compositions in popular culture. According to David Clem, "the music signifies the upturn of Fortune's wheel, while the text represents the downturn." Reception Ĭarmina Burana was successful from its first staging by the Frankfurt Opera in 1937, propelling Orff's career and becoming his best known work. Īlsop describes the piece as "a spectacle" which appeals to all of the senses, intentionally defying neat categorization. The last syllable of the song shifts in both key and emotional valence, from D minor to D major. The tone is modal, with melody built around a tonal center, until the last nine bars.
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Conductor Marin Alsop wrote that it "begins with all forces at full throttle, then immediately scale back in an ominous warning repetition that builds to a climactic close". "O Fortuna" opens at a slow pace with thumping drums and energetic choir that drops quickly into a whisper, building slowly in a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn notes peaking on one last long powerful note and ending abruptly. The repetition of the musical accompaniment draws a comparison to the spinning of the wheel. The Rota Fortunae appears in a version of the poetry collection known as the Codex Buranas. Orff was inspired both by the poem and the medieval symbol of the Rota Fortunae, or Wheel of Fortune, which the goddess Fortuna spins at random, causing some people to suffer while others find wealth. "O Fortuna" topped The People's Classical Chart in 2009 as the most-played classical music of the previous 75 years in the United Kingdom. It can be heard in numerous films and television commercials, and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations. Orff's setting of the poem has influenced and been used in many other works and has been performed by numerous classical music ensembles and popular artists. A performance takes a little over two and a half minutes. The tone is modal, until the last nine bars. It opens at a slow pace with thumping drums and choir that drops quickly into a whisper, building slowly in a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn notes peaking on one last long powerful note and ending abruptly. It was first staged by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937. In 1935–36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of " Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology. " O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written early in the 13th century. "O Fortuna" in the Carmina Burana manuscript ( Bavarian State Library the poem occupies the last six lines on the page, along with the overrun at bottom right. For the Rhydian Roberts album, see O Fortuna (album).
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