"ECW era gaming, mood music?" Topic

Any suggestions for E.C.W. era background music?
Thanks much~TomS.

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EC Dub!
EC Dub!

The sound of silence?

I don't do background music. It brings nothing to the party apart from distraction, and after a while it just becomes bloody annoying. I much prefer the hum of gentle chatter around the table, combined with raucous laughter when someone cocks it up royally.

There's Bedlam Bards, if you can find anything before their "Serenity" stuff.
There's this.
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Wolgemut.
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Just Google early music.

I rest my case

Anyway, most of these contemplator.com/england have MIDI files attached. If you must.

Connard, you're extra grumpy today. No bacon with our breakfast, or our tea gone cold?

I'm not grumpy, I'm just delivering my honest opinion. If I were grumpy I wouldn't have provided that link :)

I had a croissant (with raspberry jam) and a pain au chocolat for breakfast, with orange juice and an espresso. For lunch I had a penne arabiata with a green salad. Dunno what we're doing for dinner.

Careful, the puritans will be after for inciting dancing.

Three potential avenues here.

The first, historically accurate, would be to find honest-to-god period music. Look for composers of the Early Baroque period. Some of the easiest to find would be Dowland, Michael Praetorius, and Monteverdi. There is a pretty exhaustive list here link and this might be a good intro link
Most people don't seem to care for this type of music.

Second would be to go with the stuff favored by the SCA crowd and Rennfairys. Most people pretend to like this type of music.

Third would be to pick what feels right and enhances your game. Perhaps it's a movie soundtrack that has a certain period feel, or even an out-of-period piece that just "works", such as some mid-Baroque composers like Bach or Delalande. Most people seem to like this best.

If you are favouring Parliment then there should be NO MUSIC as it is the Devils work.

The British march "Lilibulero" is thought by some to date to the ECW. Very rousing.

Amazing Blondel – UK band from the 60's, their stuff was very 17th century in style. Relaxing to listen to on a Summer's evening in the garden, not sure it would inspire me in a game!

Over the past 15 years or so, Hyperion Records have been releasing cds of music that was written or performed in England between 1600 and 1800. Unfortunately, some of these priceless cds are no longer readily available, although Hyperion offer them mail order via an "archive service". The following are particularly on point for the ECW period:

- "A High-Priz'd Noise: music written for Charles I's court" ( link )

- Matthew Locke: "The Broken Consort" ( link )

- John Jenkins: Late Consort Music ( link )

- "Fourt and Twenty Fiddlers: Music for the Restoration Court Band" ( link )

- Matthew Locke: Anthems ( link )

Giles

Find a CD of "Morris On" a superb LP which came out early Seventies with Ashley Hutchins and many more luminaries of the electrified folk scene of that period. They also did one called "The English Country DanceMaster" (I think) – almost as good.

The City Waites doing bawdy C17th stuff mixed with "Music for Cavaliers & Roundheads" from St George's Canzona and a large collection of other C17th stuff on CD.
Steer away from the Dowland unless you want to end up slitting your wrists! He's a bit miserable.

Red and Gold by Fair port Convention. The title track is about the Battle of Cropredy.

How can one acquire some of these specialty recordings if one does not order over the Internet and live in the USA?

Steeleye Span have "They called her Babylon" about Charlotte Stanley's defence of of Lathom House.
The City Waites also have an album called "How the world wags -social music for a 17th century Englishman". Some lovely stuff on there -especially "As I walked forth"
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The Levellers?
The Clash -"English Civil War" -maybe not…
Actually following the link there seems to be a load of stuff around.

Steeleye Span have "They called her Babylon" about Charlotte Stanley's defence of of Lathom House.
The City Waites also have an album called "How the world wags -social music for a 17th century Englishman". Some lovely stuff on there -especially "As I walked forth"
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The Levellers?
The Clash -"English Civil War" -maybe not…

Sadly most of mine are on plastic (note for young ones – these were called LPs and could not be played loudly on buses).

Remember William Lawes – composer – was "casually shot" (sic) at Rowton Heath.

Oh – Puritans liked music.

Strawhead – Songs of the Civil War.

Try a google search on 17th century music especially Playford. Playford isn't a composer but a collector and publisher of English dance music of the 17th Century. There were several editions from 1650 to about 1705. I'd go with stuff from the 1650 edition.

I like Playford as I can actually manage to play some of it, and it's the kind of the pop music of the day.

There was the English folk band Strawhead that did a lot of civil war stuff:

listen.to/strawhead

Hope this helps