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March 13, 2016 1:08 PM

Medieval Music - 'Hardcore' Party Mix -- "The most rhythmic, upbeat, party medieval music out there, put together in a mix." If you need something to cool down after that 40 minute set, YouTuber VacnaPaul also put together a two hour "daydream mix" of fantasy music, from the video game scores by Jeremy Soule.
posted by filthy light thief (19 comments total)

(Title nicked from the YouTube comments)
posted by filthy light thief at 1:13 PM on March 13, 2016

yes comments are great
posted by Foci for Analysis at 1:28 PM on March 13, 2016 [3 favorites]

Thanks! I needed something lively for the next coven meeting!
posted by Nibbly Fang at 1:39 PM on March 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

It's so...reedy?
posted by timdiggerm at 2:44 PM on March 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'm really shocked there isn't any Wolgemut in that mix. They're sort of the gold standard for this wonderful music.
posted by anastasiav at 3:10 PM on March 13, 2016 [6 favorites]

It's so...reedy?


Double-reed instruments, particularly the shawm, were basically the EDM of 13th-century Europe.

It's what all the kids were dancing to in order to piss off the olds.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:15 PM on March 13, 2016 [12 favorites]

I'd turn you on to some Palestrina, man, but I don't think you'd get it.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:52 PM on March 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

Needs some Corvus Corax. But a lot of fun as is.
posted by Creosote at 4:14 PM on March 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

It's a nice day for a

red wedding.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 4:33 PM on March 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

*gets medieval with my ass*
posted by jonmc at 4:58 PM on March 13, 2016

Play that funky music, pale mannikin.
posted by mogget at 5:02 PM on March 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

Listening to this makes me feel like I should be watching some sort of sexy medieval battle montage.
posted by jenjenc at 5:27 PM on March 13, 2016

Needs some Corvus Corax. But a lot of fun as is.

Gonna just plug my old post about Corvus Corvax playing live at Wacken Open-Air with Wadokyo.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:58 PM on March 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thanks for this, flt! There was an interesting show on BBC Radio 3 a few months back about how reedy, buzzing, drone-y & generally rough-edged a lot of pre-19th-century European music-making must have been. Vaguely related—Cantus Orbis: Some Examples of Medieval Drone (a mix of ‘drone-heavy / repetitive music written between the 5th and 15th centuries’) - Vol.1; Vol. 2.
posted by misteraitch at 2:54 AM on March 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

I found the radio show I mentioned above: Lost Sounds (‘Clare Salaman on forgotten instruments which were once part of everyday musical life’) [audio is UK only]… which led me to a news article about Ms. Salaman A different tune: Making music with strange and ancient instruments… whichin turn led me to her Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments website.
posted by misteraitch at 7:25 AM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Aw yeah. Hear also the Dufay Collective's lively La Rotta . May cause desk-dancing.
posted by clew at 1:34 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

fuck me, i just realized that this youtube music is probably recordings made recently, and not, like, the actual people from 600 years ago playing it
posted by rebent at 7:45 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Yup, sorry - no archaeoacoustics here.

If you wanted to know more about the music: Medieval music on Wikipedia - I'm being lazy at the moment and not figuring out which type(s) of Medieval music are actually present here, hoping someone more informed than I am will drop by and fill in the gaps.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:44 AM on March 15, 2016

Missing So Ben Mi 'Cha Bon Tempo, which is a rocking contemporary tune!
posted by asok at 9:38 AM on March 15, 2016