[Ansteorra] War songs

[Genie Barrett]

The highway billboard showed Myfanwy ferch Eifion smiling proudly and saying:

>We're starting a Singing guild here in Bryn Gwlad.  For our first project,
>we are wanting to learn good war songs.  If anybody can give me
>recommendations on good Ansteorra war songs, SCA war songs, or period war
>songs, I would greatly appreciate it.  It would be most helpful if they come
>with some kind of music so we can figure out how they are supposed to sound.

Hey Myfanwy,

Try these web sites:

This one is all folk songs.  Some are entirely out of period, and 
others are irrelevant, but the collection is excellent.  Child 
ballads, for example, are listed and numbered as he did them.  What I 
like are that they have midi (and other sound versions), the tune 
written out on many of them, and the words.  If you don't mind 
sifting through the irrelevant stuff, there are some great songs 
here.  Some can be adapted, too, like the Northern Ireland freedom songs.
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/


This one has a lot of links that work, and many that don't, but play 
around and see what you can find.
http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/filk/scalink.html


Here's "Katriana's Songbook" lots of those Calontir songs mentioned 
earlier, and they have midi's as well as PDF files for most of it.
http://www.angelfire.com/ks/tomes2/songbook.html


Here's a link for a PDF of Voices of the Star I.  This is a book of 
strictly Ansteorran music.  There is something wrong with my reader 
and I cannot pull this up right now, but I have in the past.
http://bard.ansteorra.org/files.html

And here's our own Baroness Rhiannon Redwulf of Mooneschadowe's 
site.  She has her excellent songbook there for download (sorry, only 
the words) and some midi recordings of a few of the songs.  Just 
click on "songs."
http://www.redwulf.info/

One of the things that I have learned, is that if you enter the title 
of a song, in parenthesis, in a search engine, you can often find not 
only the lyrics, but sometimes even the score or a midi that someone 
has put up on the Internet.

Good luck, and have fun
Maggie MacPhaerson