Open Mouth, produce song.

[learnteach]

Ok, time to sing a lot again. Outside of my favorite 5, what song would you have me practice so you can hear me sing it sometime?



The Favorite Five:

1. Conn of Calontir's "Crusader Song" aka "Holy Land Sailing"
2. Siobhan the Fiddler's "To the West"
3. Trad, "The Parting Glass"
4. Stan Rodgers, "Barrett's Privateers"
5. "Vitrum Nostrum"

Spot doesn't count, but it's still here.

Dance Songs? Calontiri marching Songs? Show tunes? Burden of the Crown? Hey Landskenect (Gerhard)?

Perhaps I should find some 14th century stuff for the play date. Hmm. Any suggestions?

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

I don't know any calontiri marching songs, so I guess I'll just have to be happy about the ones I do know (that are all on your list!)

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

2 and 4. :)

[ladybrid.livejournal.com]

Queen of Argyle

and you should teach the monkeys the Crusader Song

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

March of Cambreadth (Heather Alexander)

plus, showtunes!

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

"Hammered By Rivers of Mead"

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

14th century music is HOT. (Forget ars nova, it's too prissy and perfect. I'm talking about medieval gospel music -- folksy, gutsy, eminently suited for belting at the top of one's lungs.) When I have a computer that can burn CDs (next week, with luck) I could make you a copy of my 14th c playlist... with 13th c drinking songs thrown in for good measure... :-)

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hear you sing Machaut's "Comment Qu'a Moi Lonteinne"--but I don't know when I'd have the opportunity (OTOH, we might have to fly to the Bay Area for shawm maintenance, so never say Never).

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Do you do Bold Marauder? You've got the lungs for it.

Love your favourite five! Miss hearing you sing. Fancy a trip to Milan? ;-)

The songs from the Llibre Vermell de Monsterrat are 14th Century, and all beautiful. You could also have much fun with them--as I understand the story they were written by the monks to popular tunes of the day because they were sick of the pilgrims singing "inappropriate" songs to celebrate their arrival. The "inappropriate" versions haven't survived, but you could write them...

[gatcat.livejournal.com]

It's hard to pick a song for you, since I've never heard you sing. Where can a guy go to get an earful?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Anything period is good.