Music
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* [[Imperial Anthem]] - known across the Empire, though sung in different styles | * [[Imperial Anthem]] - known across the Empire, though sung in different styles | ||
* [[The Good Old Way]] - hymn about The Way, medium | |||
* [[Daddy Fox]] - folk song about a cunning fox, easy. | * [[Daddy Fox]] - folk song about a cunning fox, easy. | ||
* [[Three Ravens/Twa Corbies]] - song about a dead knight, medium. | * [[Three Ravens/Twa Corbies]] - song about a dead knight, medium. | ||
Revision as of 08:05, 16 August 2012
Live music adds a huge amount of atmosphere to a game. Not only that, it can be used as a device to inject information for both plot and immersion purposes, and finally, music and storytelling provides a way to immortalise characters and to increase their lasting impact on the game world. The purpose of this section of the wiki is to encourage live performances of appropriate music and stories and to provide guidance and resources to create a different style of music for each nation. No IC music is discouraged, these resources are just suggestions. We hope it will help musicians and performers to bring alive their camps and add a great deal to the immersion of the game as a whole.
Please note, we are being very careful to credit all tunes and lyrics here. Please do not upload copyrighted material without the explicit permission of the authors/performers. Want to submit music to this resource? Here is a music template page to help you.
- Brass Coast Music
- Dawn Music
- Highguard Music
- League Music
- Marches Music
- Navarri Music
- Urizen Music
- Varushka Music
- Wintermark Music
Songs known throughout the Empire
- Imperial Anthem - known across the Empire, though sung in different styles
- The Good Old Way - hymn about The Way, medium
- Daddy Fox - folk song about a cunning fox, easy.
- Three Ravens/Twa Corbies - song about a dead knight, medium.
- The Parting Glass - farewell song, medium.
- Here's A Health to the Company - easy drinking song.
General Music Resources
- For song lyrics: Mudcat, traditionalmusic.co.uk
- For tunes: TheSession
- To find vaguely religious lyrics about the virtues, try using the word search at http://fasola.org/indexes/1991/?l=a You can search by words e.g. Ambition or "The Way" and then click through to the whole song. To find the tune, try googling the song title as many shape note songs are on youtube, or find a friendly shape note singer who can look up the tune in the book.
- Shakespeare sonnets are suiitable for a few cultures, especially Dawn, or for filking. http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/all.php