====== Bardic ====== //All fencers, bearwards, common players in interludes and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of the realm or towards any other honourable personage of greater degree ... which ... shall wander abroad and have not license of two justices of the peace ... shall be judged rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars.// [[http://www.cornellcollege.edu/english/Blaugdone/essays/vagrancy.htm| --Vagrancy in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England]] The **Bardic Arts** is a nebulous category, but a generally accepted definition is that they are one of the many performance arts that uniquely tends to have a focus on poetry, songs that tell stories, and storytelling. Those who practice the Bardic Arts are observers, keepers, performers, and often creators of the stories and songs of the history and people of the SCA, as well as works inspired by their Group/Household/Shire/Canton/Barony/Principality/Kingdom pride, events in period, and works about period times or in period settings inspired by events in the SCA. Along with performing, many bards will add original works to the wealth of material that help support and build up 'The Dream' of the SCA. Bardic is an Art/Craft - but there is a Social aspect, as well as many opportunities for service to the Society through performance and also organizing entertainment at events. Bardic includes recited poetry, recited prose, //a cappella// song (either solo or chorus), and accompanied song (either solo or chorus). That said, as there are many bardic traditions, both within the society and within period, the definition of what constitutes the Bardic Arts or a Bard is fluid. ===== External Links ===== ====Articles==== * [[http://athenaeumhectoris.blogspot.ca/2014/06/what-is-bard.html|What is a Bard?]] * [[http://sca.todd-fischer.com/2010/11/role-of-ursine-bard.html|The Role of the Ursine Bard]] * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GFHtnCxA8MeqrFPk5arzDki_iwJdQMrACSaa0LDgIJY/edit?usp=sharing|Making it Yours: An Introduction to Making a Bardic Repertoire]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/research-for-bards-and-performers/|Research for Bards and Performers (Finding and Fixing a Repertoire)]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/sight-singing-dots-re-mi/|Sight Singing: Dots to Do-Re-Mi!]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/sonnet-more-like-shakespeare-five-things-he-does-youre-probably-not-doing/|Sonnet More Like Shakespeare — Five Things He Does You’re Probably Not Doing]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/so-you-want-to-write-a-song/|So You Want to Write a Song?]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/articles/step-7-im-going-to-finish-this-thing-if-it-kills-me/|Step 7: I’m Going to Finish This Thing If It Kills Me]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/best-foot-forward-fixed-poetic-meters/|Best Foot Forward: Fixed Poetic Meters]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/documenting-original-bardic-pieces-the-quest-for-the-elusive-point/|Documenting Original Bardic Pieces: The Quest for the Elusive Point]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/how-to-bard-a-primer/|How to Bard, a primer]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/vocal-projection-and-presence/|Vocal Projection and Presence]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/period-filk/|Period Filk and Contrafacta]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/Articles/traditionalballads.htm|Traditional Ballads]] * [[https://www.ravenboymusic.com/what-is-a-mode/|What Is a Mode?]] ==== Wordsmithing Resources ==== * [[http://www.rhymezone.com/|Rhyming Dictionary]] * [[http://thesaurus.com/|Thesaurus]] * [[http://translate.google.com/|Google Translation]] * [[http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin|English to Latin Translator]] * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/music_bibliography.html|Renaissance Music Bibliography]] * [[http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/|Foxit Reader]] is a small, fast program to **view PDF files**. ==== Instrumental Music Resources ==== * [[http://thedancingmaster.net/sca_dance_fakebook.pdf|SCA Dance Fakebook]] * [[https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/|Steve Hendricks Music Collection]] (mixture of dance music and music with vocal parts) * [[https://mbouchard.com/aneleda/starting-from-the-beginning-period-english-vocal-music-suitable-for-sca-performance|English Vocal Music Suitable for SCA Performance]] ==== Poetics and Spoken Word ==== * [[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8419241r/f1.image|Recueil des poésies des troubadours, 1201-1300]] (Gallicia Biblioteque Numerique) * [[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/born/3/16th_century_poets.html|16th Century Poets and Renaissance Poetry]] * [[https://public.archive.wsu.edu/brians/public_html/love-in-the-arts/renaissance.html|Renaissance Love Song Study Guides]] ==== Period English Secular Songs Anyone Can Sing ==== * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/modern/|The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft]] * [[http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=3694|Free PDF Download Of Ravenscroft's Melismata (Phansies fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey humours)]] * [[http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/Thomas+Ravenscroft/-1/1.html|More free Ravenscroft secular sheet music]] * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/deloney/|Music Selections from Thomas Deloney (1543-1600)]] * [[http://archive.org/details/workseditedfrome00delouoft|Facsimile of Thomas Deloney book]] * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html|16th Century Broadside Ballads]] * [[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/|Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, a project to digitize the 30,000 extant ballads]] ==== Early Music Lyrics ==== * [[https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php|ChoralWiki]] * [[http://earlymusichicago.org/sheet_music_scores.htm|Early Music Chicago]] * [[https://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music_composers.php?historiques=1&periode=MiddleAge|FreeScores.com Medieval]] and [[http://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music_composers.php?periode=Renaissance&historiques=1|Renaissance]] * [[http://imslp.org/|Petrucci Music Library]] * [[http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:People_from_the_Medieval_era|Petrucci Music Library Mediaeval Page]] * [[http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:People_from_the_Renaissance_era|Petrucci Music Library Renaissance Page]] * [[http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/|Troubadour lyrics]] * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/|Cantigas de Santa Maria]] * [[http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/|Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers]] * The Internet Renaissance Band (MIDI Files for the tunes + some Lyrics) * [[http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic/medieval.html|Mediaeval Music]] * [[http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic/renaissa.html|Renaissance Music]] * [[http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic/carol.html|Mediaeval Carols]] * [[http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/mltexts.htm|Middle English Texts (Many with mp3)]] * [[https://public.archive.wsu.edu/brians/public_html/love-in-the-arts/medieval.html|Mediaeval]] and [[https://public.archive.wsu.edu/brians/public_html/love-in-the-arts/renaissance.html|Renaissance Love Song Study Guides]] ==== Early Music Videos and Albums ==== * [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkMjMgNoraoJbIL4j388GAA|Datura Medieval Music (musical group)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/@slayerbulia|Kings and Beggars (musical group)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcX-4c7VGL8&list=OLAK5uy_m4tW1WtEVDyT69dbwNl3YtoaaQcu9TX24|Winchester Troper (11th Century)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgM0OsHafs&list=OLAK5uy_kFhzOcxcjGrlpKThwoxV7As7rR1fhM4bY|Chansons des Femmes (12th and 13th-century women's songs)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UREuKHBMi90&list=OLAK5uy_nD-wi4b2nGWZNDegXaEXJ77oP-Hdbm0t4|Dame de Flors (12th and 13th-century women's songs)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOLIcOJa-0&list=OLAK5uy_mWfORgvMGNvlZfYwMb7f-mIm_tJp4IvoI|Full Well She Sang (Women's songs)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8n8wzfKd7c&list=OLAK5uy_nxfu35QwE0sgp7C2flLqPmhEbzdeCmxFU|13th Century Jewish songs]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHwZpxHHrg&list=OLAK5uy_n2PR4s75oW7KurXoD_ko1EHLH2C4oBda8|Songs of Travel by The Toronto Consort]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nUGK1gNWVs&list=OLAK5uy_lF66AEV-uN2u39A1tRuYDKKmKm57xNjZg|Thibaut de Champagne, Channsonier de Roi (12th and 13th century Trouvère]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh4CikASEjRaYZSXvncQZcl22_F7aFWgT|Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein, 14th and 15th century Minnesanger]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAVEhoJYlYM|"Ce fut en mai" by Moniot d’Arras]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfrrRpNH7U&list=OLAK5uy_lSIIfBrHEaGyin-yTCerraAQavnk5ivNk|Gautier de Coincy (12th-13th century)]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQpUshw7u4&list=PLWsvkwgRM-ZwvHpBsP35472xJam4RwGwg|Walther von der Vogelweide (12th-13th century sangsprucht and minnesang]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmKeIxEUf4U&list=OLAK5uy_nKk1MRE07tsDR1T07Tf_IT5qS1948SCno|14th Century Festive Music for the Visconti Court]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXLJkY5SG_EkLQ-7pi1pRcGLVvUYK18EU|Johannes Ciconia, 14th century]] ==== SCA Lyrics ==== * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html|SCA Minstrel Homepage]] * [[https://ealdormere.ca/barony-of-ramshaven/library/excellencies-ramshaven-songbook/|Ramshaven Songbook]] * Cry of the Wolf * [[http://www.ealdormere.ca/files/COTW1.pdf|Cry of the Wolf 1, Popular Songs]] **PDF File** * [[http://www.ealdormere.ca/files/COTW2.pdf|Cry of the Wolf 2, Memorial]] **PDF File** * [[http://www.ealdormere.ca/files/COTW3.pdf|Cry of the Wolf 3, Poetry]] **PDF File** * [[http://www.ealdormere.ca/files/COTW4.pdf|Cry of the Wolf 4, Our Stories]] **PDF File** * [[http://unclej.ca/TopTen.asp|Cry of the Wolf 5, (Uncle J's top 10)]] or [[http://unclej.ca/pdfs/cotwv.pdf|PDF Version]] **PDF File** * [[http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Bardic_Circle/Virtual_Bardic_Circle.html|Cariadoc's Virtual Bardic Circle]] ==== Recordings of SCA Songs ==== * [[https://www.youtube.com/@ShavaSue|ShavaSue]] * [[https://www.youtube.com/@CeriansKeep|Cerian Cantwr]] ==== Anachronistic Songs ==== May not be pre-17th century, but fun or interesting to sing * [[http://ingeb.org/folksong.html|Anderer Länder Folksongs of various Countries]] * [[https://www.swil.org/FILKS/index.html| SWIL Filk Songs]] * [[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ap_huw/|The Robert ap Huw manuscript (B. M. Addl. MS 14905)]] ===== Guilds and Orders ===== * [[groups:guilds_and_orders:Bardic College of Ealdormere]] * [[groups:guilds_and_orders:Athenaeum Hectoris]] ===== See Also ===== * [[people:people_by_interest:bardic|List of People Interested in Bardic]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:music|Music]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:instrumental|Instrumental]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:singing|Singing]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:poetry|Poetry]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:storytelling|Storytelling]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:theatre|Theatre]] * [[activities:arts_sciences:dance|Dance]] (an allied trade of Bardic)