[Ansteorra] War songs
Genie Barrett
maggie.gene at justinanimator.com
Mon Feb 13 10:43:28 PST 2006
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
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