Celesta (1925), Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" (1912), and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (1918), while "an excellent example of its beauty when well employed", is the Silver Rose scene in his "Der Rosenkavalier" (1911), Ferruccio Busoni's "Arlecchino" (1917) and "Doktor Faust" (1925), Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" (1936) and "Der Mond" (1939), Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amelia Goes to the Ball" (1937), Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (1954) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1960), Conrad Susa's "Transformations" (1973), and Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" (1984). The keyboard glockenspiel part in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is nowadays often played by a celesta. Since Earl
Carmina Burana Carmina Burana Carmina Burana (, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" ["Buria" in Latin]) is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical. They were written principally in Medieval Latin, a few in Middle High German, and some with traces of Old French. Some are macaronic, a mixture of Latin and German or French vernacular. They were written by students and clergy when the Latin idiom was the lingua franca throughout Italy and western Europe for travelling scholars, universities,