Carmina Burana songs originating from Occitania, France, England, Scotland, Aragon, Castile, and the Holy Roman Empire. Twenty-four poems in "Carmina Burana" were set to music by Carl Orff in 1936. His composition quickly became popular and a staple piece of the classical music repertoire. The opening and closing movement "O Fortuna" has been used in numerous films. "Carmina Burana" (CB) is a manuscript written in 1230 by two different scribes in an early gothic minuscule on 119 sheets of parchment. A number of free pages, cut of a slightly different size, were attached at the end of the text in the 14th
The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny on the "Bounty". The three novels, previously published separately, are:— "The Bounty Trilogy" was first published in 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, with a new preface by the authors and included vignette decorations by . This edition used the plates from the original novels and had 903 pages. In 1940 a new edition was published by Little, Brown and Company, with illustrations by N C Wyeth. This edition used