Odd music...where to find?

[Trinique_Fire]

Bulgarian bagpipes?

Ancient music and chants?

Anyone?

 

[Tegan_Rourke]

You could probably talk to Vana about chants...I heard some stuff from Abs, however, it all sounds like a bunch of women having sex to me.

 

[slyc_willie]

Bulgarian bagpipes?

Ancient music and chants?

Anyone?

I've done some random searches with Limewire, looking for unusual music, and came up with quite a few interesting results. It's a lot of fun to play around and search for some obscure music varieties.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Bulgarian bagpipes?

Ancient music and chants?

Anyone?

You might try Amazon...

 

[MagicaPractica]

This may be too mainstream but Thistle and Shamrock is Celtic music. http://www.npr.org/programs/thistle/ I think I've heard them say most of the music is available through Borders.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

This may be too mainstream but Thistle and Shamrock is Celtic music. http://www.npr.org/programs/thistle/ I think I've heard them say most of the music is available through Borders.

I've found a lot of Celtish music on Micrsoft's site for their Zune player as well as other fairly obscure stuff...

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Bagpipes are really an Irish instrument (The Scots swiped it from us). Although the Irish bag pipe is smaller and different sounding. I have 10 or 15.

And quite a few traditional Celtic pieces. The most common Celtic groups are Enya and Clannad. Most is in Gaelic. You can find it on Limewire. I find most of it rather haunting, personally.

EDIT: jesus. You want odd, come to the source.

 

[Equinoxe]

I don't know about where to find music on the Bulgarian bagpipes (the guida apparently), but I can tell you where to find some Ancient music and chants.

If you want truly Ancient music, l'Ensemble Kérylos is a French group who do as-close-to-authentic-as-possible-renditions of surviving Ancient Greek music (there isn't much) and who have a CD. I'm not entirely sure how readily available their CD is, though. This site contains some information and short samples of Ancient Greek and Ancient Near Eastern music (not in any particularly enjoyable format for the latter), although it is mostly just sort of examples of how instruments sound rather than authentic pieces. There is an interesting modern reconstruction of how a portion of The Odyssey might have originally been performed (specifically, a performance in the original of one of the songs that Demodokos sings for King Alkinoös in the story), sung accompanied by a lyre. There is also a short extract from a Delphic Paean to Apollo which sounds quite lovely, but I haven't heard it in its entirety (the complete version is available on CD with the author's book, although I believe l'Ensemble Kérylos also perform that particular piece).


Amazon and other major websites have lots of CDs of modern attempts at semi-recreating Ancient music by recreating the basic styles and modes and instruments, although not authentic songs. Very little truly Ancient music survives, but there is a whole wealth of early Mediæval chant, in various Eastern and Western Rite Church music. Having said that, they, likewise, carry a host of plainchant and Byzantine chant, as well as offerings by more secular Mediæval music, like that of Pérotin or Hildegard of Bingen.

I've never ordered anything from the site, so I can't really say anything about it (other than my amusement at linking to it from here), but this site has a rather wide selection of Liturgical music of various sorts (Gregorian, Byzantine, Old Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, Russian, Bulgarian, Jewish, etc.), as well non-liturgical sacred music and work such as that, again, of Hildegard of Bingen -- although I am disappointed by the lack of Tomás Luis de Victoria in their (relatively small) Renaissance section.




Now, finding any of that sort of music for free is surprisingly difficult and I have not been especially able to do so.


Edited to add: Here is a rendition the oldest song found in its entirety (the Seikilos Epitaph), being perhaps 2200 years old. It is very short, however.

Some interesting finds, at of all places, YouTube:
Here is a YouTube video of some gentleman playing the the aforementioned Delphic Paean to Apollo on a Lyre. The same gentleman playing a version of the Seikilos Epitaph. Once more, this time he is playing the Hymn to the Sun.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

There's a group in Athens that does Tradtional Greek plays in Greek. Some of them are actually lyric poems that are sung. Don't remember who they are though.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Just to clean up my search a bit...

At the risk of sounding silly, the only music and/or chants I have to go by comparison are music scores from the television show, Xena.

The intro song? Bulgarian bagpipes, quoted by K. Stoddard Hayes as "...[the] wild and eerie sound..."

Now, I'm no dunce with languages, but it's difficult with a lot of the chants and music they used in the show (which IS very beautiful and haunting, I might add) to pinpoint what language(s) are being used.

I've been doing a lot of general searches on Ares (no, not the god, the music downloading thingy) for things like "ancient chants", "macedonian chants", "bulgarian chants", etc. I've been looking also, for Hindi, Egyptian, and Arabic chants and music as well. But I want that haunting, traditional sound. I don't want the pop sound of today....

Thanks guys.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

At the risk of sounding silly, the only music and/or chants I have to go by comparison are music scores from the television show, Xena.

The intro song? Bulgarian bagpipes, quoted by K. Stoddard Hayes as "...[the] wild and eerie sound..."

Now, I'm no dunce with languages, but it's difficult with a lot of the chants and music they used in the show (which IS very beautiful and haunting, I might add) to pinpoint what language(s) are being used.

I've been doing a lot of general searches on Ares (no, not the god, the music downloading thingy) for things like "ancient chants", "macedonian chants", "bulgarian chants", etc. I've been looking also, for Hindi, Egyptian, and Arabic chants and music as well. But I want that haunting, traditional sound. I don't want the pop sound of today....

Thanks guys.

Try As Baile by Enya, Trinique... It sounds like something form the middle ages and it's freaky because you think you can almost understand the words.
'S Fagam Mo Bhaile is like that too. Totally haunting.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

At the risk of sounding silly, the only music and/or chants I have to go by comparison are music scores from the television show, Xena.

The intro song? Bulgarian bagpipes, quoted by K. Stoddard Hayes as "...[the] wild and eerie sound..."

Now, I'm no dunce with languages, but it's difficult with a lot of the chants and music they used in the show (which IS very beautiful and haunting, I might add) to pinpoint what language(s) are being used.

I've been doing a lot of general searches on Ares (no, not the god, the music downloading thingy) for things like "ancient chants", "macedonian chants", "bulgarian chants", etc. I've been looking also, for Hindi, Egyptian, and Arabic chants and music as well. But I want that haunting, traditional sound. I don't want the pop sound of today....

Thanks guys.

Have you tried the Library of Congress....