Medieval music

Anyone know of any good medieval music or inspired stuff? I've searched for it on yt but cant seem to find too much and most of it is a bit cartoonish. Looking for real music from the middle ages or modern day but dedicated to serious imitation of the era... And pure, not like the hipster baroque pop stuff, no vocals either. Thanks!

is this correct? I'm not sure what exactly falls under that label

  On 7/10/2018 at 6:43 AM, MIXL2 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D2VLQr4kBg

 

is this correct? I'm not sure what exactly falls under that label

Oh yeah this is great, thanks! I've never listened to much Bach but it doesn't get more authentic lol

Just discovered this bad boy too

https://deaf-knight.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-ages

There's a whole movement called dungeon synth that I'd heard before but never really explored. I guess just midi interpretations of the era.

;)

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/95072-dungeon-synth/

I'm curious on more genuine stuff from the middle ages though, i dont know much besides bach

sorry guys, but bach is baroque..roughly 200 years later..

its more like guillaume de machaut ..chants, dances, songs, instrumental pieces..and mind you, "medieval" in the western music world spans over almost 1000 years..basically everything "reasonably well documented" before the renaissance

lovely, thanks for the clarification

get your european cultural history right, come on. Papa Peterson would be ashamed of you.

Yeah, Bach's a bit later than medieval. I can't find a decent-sounding version but 'Sumer is icumen in' is fairly legit medieval music, 13thC or thereabouts:

Lots of very beautiful choral music from this period (although there's a bit in Alan Partridge where he sings this and I can't hear it anymore without hearing him sing it):

^ That's not a good example but in the medieval period we start to see people really playing with polyphony and the possibilities of multiple voices moving against one another.

Jumping ahead to the Reformation, Thomas Tallis made some really beautiful music. This was a fairly hectic time in England, and I remember reading somewhere (possibly in the comments of this video? can't remember) that there's a real elegaic quality in his work, a sense of loss for the passing of the Catholic church and the certainty provided by that worldview, in contrast with the various competing doctrines of Protestantism. Fucking sublime music whatever way you want to interpret it:

And then a little bit later, on the late medieval/Renaissance borderline, we've got guys like Orlando Gibbons, court music for geezers in ruffs and hose:

Haven't even scratched the surface of this stuff and I'm very ignorant about medieval music from non-Western cultures, unfortunately. Loads to explore...

(i don't know anything much about this, just something i found somewhere sometime and liked)

  On 7/10/2018 at 8:57 AM, Salvatorin said:

get your european cultural history right, come on. Papa Peterson would be ashamed of you.

*procrastinates intensly* 

Also somewhat post-medieval. Such beauty... I really have to explore this man's work some more.

http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2016/04/the-food-of-love-project/

I picked up this album last year which was covers / recitals / inspirations from Shakespeare's works.

Probably on Spotify / youtube etc if you want to listen

funny genre

There's a whole bunch of early music ensembles that might scratch your itch, OP:

Possibly also stuff like this:

It's not mediscriptkiddy (actually fuck it, it might be for all I know) but Bulgarian close-harmony singing *adjusts glasses and tweed jacket* is totally ancient and otherworldly-sounding and might be up your street (skip to 14.08 to see what I mean):

I went through a period a while ago of recording weird medieval-sounding stuff but it's definitely not authentic/legit (hasn't been mixed properly either, and couldn't resist throwing in a few cheesy manoeuvres):

https://soundcloud.com/tanizaki_uk/sanctuary-serpent-prow-rough-mix

Edit: that's supposed to read 'medieval' above, not 'mediscriptkiddy', watmm autoreplaces it with that for some reason (in that one instance only), bizarre

This thread needs more Friday night at ye' local pub medieval. Get the lassies moving.

  On 7/10/2018 at 9:08 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

It's not mediscriptkiddy (actually fuck it, it might be for all I know) but Bulgarian close-harmony singing *adjusts glasses and tweed jacket* is totally ancient and otherworldly-sounding and might be up your street (skip to 14.08 to see what I mean):

 

jeez fuck, how many wonderful things are there to hear

  On 7/10/2018 at 9:12 PM, olo said:

This thread needs more Friday night at ye' local pub medieval. Get the lassies moving.

https://youtu.be/r4y7HNW972M

It's good to take a look at some ancient instruments:

Hurdy-gurdy, 12th century in Europe

Santur, ~1000 A.D. in Middle East

Saung, ~200 A.D. (pre-medieval) in Myanmar

Metal Mbira, ~700 A.D. in Central East Africa:

Qanun, ~950 A.D. in Middle East

Wow thanks for all these great suggestions, have a lot to listen to.

Yeah it's a characteristic of Arab music to make use of quarter tones, I want them in my piano roll

Alfonso X is really powerful stuff, sounds so modern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj5Bc8zwwU0

  On 7/11/2018 at 11:46 AM, darreichungsform said:

Yeah it's a characteristic of Arab music to make use of quarter tones, I want them in my piano roll

Totally agreed. Would be a nice workflow instead of having to play with cent knob or automate pitch bends lol

I like Project Ars Nova's Ars Magis Subtiliter. Secular Music of the Chantilly Codex a lot, especially the (allegedly) hasish or opium songs.

The beginning of that second one one's not a very traditional interpretation but it's still great.

  On 7/11/2018 at 8:43 PM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 7/11/2018 at 11:46 AM, darreichungsform said:

Yeah it's a characteristic of Arab music to make use of quarter tones, I want them in my piano roll

Totally agreed. Would be a nice workflow instead of having to play with cent knob or automate pitch bends lol

 

FM8 does microtuning.