RamistThomist
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what are some examples of medieval music that can be found online?
Medieval music
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Are there any Madrigal's that would be considered medieval? Any Troubadours?
LadyCalvinist
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You have come to the right person. I love medieval music. I don't know about downloadable but I have enjoyed the music of Martin Best, an Englishman who specializes in Troubador music, and the Folger Shakespeare Consort. I have also found other sources for medieval music over the years. The music of Hildegard von Bingen is some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Hope this helps.
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Theogenes
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Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes) 
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
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RamistThomist
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Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes)
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
That's awesome. I just downloaded one of their songs.
Theogenes
Puritan Board Junior
I agree! They use period instruments and sing/chant in Latin or German and their music has great energy. I've got about 7 of their CDs and listen to them several times per week. They look a little strange but I try not to look
If you want something a little less energetic and have the period instruments check out Piffaro. Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
If you want something a little less energetic and have the period instruments check out Piffaro. Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
RamistThomist
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I agree! They use period instruments and sing/chant in Latin or German and their music has great energy. I've got about 7 of their CDs and listen to them several times per week. They look a little strange but I try not to look
Energy is definitely the right word. This band rocks (no pun intended).
Archlute
Puritan Board Senior
Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes)
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
Sorry, but from the samples that I listened to on their site, I'd have to say that these knuckleheads are just a bunch of hacks who are ripping off what little musical scholarship they have come across, and mixing it with European dance club ideas. That's not to say that you can't enjoy them, but real medieval music it is not.
They attempt to reinterpret history on this point, but anybody who has studied early music can tell you that they are flailing to reintroduce what they only think the pagan music of the middle ages may have sounded like. There are examples of both, and there is very reliable scholarship in the area, contra to what they state in their little history of Western music. Medieval and Renaissance tunes can get pretty rowdy though, just in a different manner.
Maybe their full discography would paint a different picture had I the time to listen - I'm just not very certain it would judging by the showmanship seen in the application of their makeup!
"Would the man with the B.Mus. please step down..."
Going my merry way now.
Archlute
Puritan Board Senior
Adam,
I'm not a music major but I realize that CC are not REAL medieval music, but I still like them
I also suggested Piffaro. What do you think about them?
Jim
No problem, Jim. I agree that you could listen to a group like that merely for enjoyment; I was just irked by their assertion that the scholarship of Western music had tweaked real Medieval music using a Christian bias, and that they were recording it in all of its pagan glory. I guess that having spent a significant portion of my life disciplining myself to interpret and perform Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern classical music on a professional level makes me a little less tolerant than the average bear with the sort of marketing techniques that they employ.
Piffaro looks quite legit. I went to their site, but was unable to find any samples of them performing. Are there some links on there, or just a discography from which one can place an order?
There are some great early music ensembles and festivals out there, and an increasing number of conservatories that offer early music studies. It's really fun stuff. And not to give the impression that early Western music was devoid of any rowdiness, there is a neat little woodwind instrument called a "racket" that looks like a pepper grinder, and sounds like, well, a racket! I played in an early music ensemble for a year, and it was a blast.
Here are some of the lyrics that I remember from a few of the sillier rounds:
"Marjorie, serve well the black sow, all on a misty morning.
Come to thy dinner sow, come, come, come,
Or else thou shalt have never a crumb!"
"Three blind mice, three blind mice,
Dame Julianne, Dame Julianne,
The miller and his merry old wife,
She scraped the tripe, licked thou the knife,
Three blind mice, three blind mice..."
The second of these was sung in a minor key, and was really odd. I mean, both of them have odd lyrics, but having grown up with the nursery rhyme version of the Three Blind Mice made the latter like an adults only version. I just couldn't imagine singing that to my kids to put them to bed!
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Assessor
Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes)
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
Tell me this is not the most awesome video you have ever seen!
YouTube - Corvus Corax - Hymnus Cantica
Presbyterian Deacon
Puritan Board Graduate
Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes)
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
Tell me this is not the most awesome video you have ever seen!
YouTube - Corvus Corax - Hymnus Cantica
This is not the most awesome video I have ever seen.
Well, you asked...
Actually, I enjoyed it. Thanks.
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RamistThomist
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Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
Check out Piffarro and Corvus Corax!(especially if you like medieval bagpipes)
Here's a link to Corvus Corax: Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica
Sorry, but from the samples that I listened to on their site, I'd have to say that these knuckleheads are just a bunch of hacks who are ripping off what little musical scholarship they have come across, and mixing it with European dance club ideas. That's not to say that you can't enjoy them, but real medieval music it is not.
They attempt to reinterpret history on this point, but anybody who has studied early music can tell you that they are flailing to reintroduce what they only think the pagan music of the middle ages may have sounded like. There are examples of both, and there is very reliable scholarship in the area, contra to what they state in their little history of Western music. Medieval and Renaissance tunes can get pretty rowdy though, just in a different manner.
Maybe their full discography would paint a different picture had I the time to listen - I'm just not very certain it would judging by the showmanship seen in the application of their makeup!
"Would the man with the B.Mus. please step down..."
Going my merry way now.
A friend who had seen them at the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire introduced me to their music a couple of years ago and that was the impression I got as well.
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