Recommended Music

[zxc]

Loreena McKennitt:

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[video=youtube;S2CFM4ev-g8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2CFM4ev-g8[/video]
[video=youtube;Vt2r2rUHc7Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2r2rUHc7Q[/video]
[video=youtube;JvPu2PGzcSg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPu2PGzcSg[/video]
[video=youtube;mXtrqHrHcI8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtrqHrHcI8[/video]
[video=youtube;Mz6EFiXbcT8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6EFiXbcT8[/video]
[video=youtube;s1AcESk7JBA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AcESk7JBA[/video]

Arcana:

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[video=youtube;MNkkq5nC5YM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkkq5nC5YM[/video]
[video=youtube;52Nu01p1JeA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Nu01p1JeA[/video]
[video=youtube;OTeMHkUo_Zk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTeMHkUo_Zk[/video]

Karl Sanders:

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[video=youtube;3fYfZLdsMuo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fYfZLdsMuo[/video]
[video=youtube;LpKFaN1wXFA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKFaN1wXFA[/video]

Ayreon:

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[video=youtube;ubPDWJ1l-LI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubPDWJ1l-LI[/video]
[video=youtube;2XAPosjkbfQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XAPosjkbfQ[/video]

Gladiator OST:

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[video=youtube;Q8lBGT4mp9A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lBGT4mp9A[/video]
[video=youtube;m8bGHbcJa5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bGHbcJa5I[/video]
[video=youtube;ZAOTSO9ioZk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAOTSO9ioZk[/video]

Rodrigo y Gabriela:

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[video=youtube;7J28KhdB8kE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J28KhdB8kE[/video]
[video=youtube;dLESmgh-VCE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLESmgh-VCE[/video]
[video=youtube;sqkJIJ1puHk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkJIJ1puHk[/video]

Vàli:

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[video=youtube;nbqE9TAo614]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbqE9TAo614[/video]
[video=youtube;bbCijPVR7MM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCijPVR7MM[/video]
[video=youtube;tijqDLLmnZQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijqDLLmnZQ[/video]

Liszt:

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[video=youtube;zGBXA1tBiLw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBXA1tBiLw[/video]

 

[nigo]

Skyrim soundtrack

 

[ObsidianSpectre]

Where do I find the loose mp3 music files for the CK2 music?
Or else, where do I get it otherwise?

 

[Draug]

This is one of my favorite songs period. It's about a knight, wanting to free the holy lands.


[video=youtube;Sr4gPS0gpdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4gPS0gpdE[/video]

 

[zxc]

<snip>

Oh yeah, somehow I neglected to mention my favourite band this past year

Symphony X

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[video=youtube;Y3pJa0flBo0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pJa0flBo0[/video]
[video=youtube;TsfIVtBt0lA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsfIVtBt0lA[/video]
[video=youtube;ON2xOQBQX0s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON2xOQBQX0s[/video]

 

[Lord Vamp]

[video=youtube;Fzo-U8UjlLI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzo-U8UjlLI[/video]

[video=youtube;cTDtYYGhBKc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDtYYGhBKc[/video]

 

[ThomasH]

Ougenweide [german medieval rockgroup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n5B2GCqyM4M

 

[fatih pasha]

Hilliard Ensemble's albumes always work for me. Their music is almost tailor made for thev CK franchise.

 

[Aloriel]

Where do I find the loose mp3 music files for the CK2 music?
Or else, where do I get it otherwise?

They aren't in mp3 format. They're in ogg format. ogg is convertible to mp3. You can probably find a converter on downloads.com (cnet).

As for my taste:
Courts, Kings & Troubadours
The Roses - Found them at a local renaissance festival
Azam Ali
Mediaeval Baebes
Minstrels of Mayhem - Also from renaissance festival - band defunct

I made a playlist of the most medieval songs of these artists, and I loop it on shuffle in iTunes.

 

[ObsidianSpectre]

They aren't in mp3 format. They're in ogg format. ogg is convertible to mp3. You can probably find a converter on downloads.com (cnet).

Thanks! Found them now.

 

[The_Chancellor]

Kalenda Maya - a cute little Norwegian band with possibly the best version of Como Poden Per Sas Culpas. All others I know are either too dry and lifeless (a mistake, I think, that most academic consorts/cameratas/collegiums/whathaveyou make) or too slow or, or, or...
[video=youtube;pW_EJQI2qQw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_EJQI2qQw[/video]

The Cantigas de Sta. Maria must be the greatest collection of medieval songs next to the Carmina Burana. Many great melodies. The Llibre Vermell contains a lot of good stuff, too, like one of my very favourite songs of the period - Stella Splendens in Monte:
[video=youtube;8frAmkVXiwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8frAmkVXiwI[/video]
This is from the Ensemble Oni Wytars, from the album "From Byzantium to Andalusia" (among others) - an album that I can recommend wholeheartedly. It contains a lot of stuff from all around the Mediterranean that you don't hear all too often, like music of the Sephardic Jews, turcic songs by Yunus Emre and even a Kyrie Eleison from 9th-10th century Lebanon:
[video=youtube;wm6QTPyzMm0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm6QTPyzMm0[/video]

Good stuff.

Another group I'd like to mention (haven't found the name in the thread, yet, though I just flew over it, because I knoew most of the stuff posted so far) is La Reverdie:
From Ireland (Na coire ar na sleibhtibh (What does that mean, actually? And how do you pronounce that right?))...
[video=youtube;a-sTR-weUEY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-sTR-weUEY[/video]
...to Germany (Oswald v. Wolkenstein, Ir alten weib nu frewet ew (Olden women, rejoice - a spring song))...
[video=youtube;4cv_uFy4WLg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cv_uFy4WLg[/video]
...and, of course, something from the Carmina Burana, my favourite tune from that compilation: Procurans Odium.
[video=youtube;ao6u4bG0TTg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao6u4bG0TTg[/video]


Oh yeah, and I need some help. I've once heard a medieval English song named "Sainte Nicolaes" - it might be that it was a version by the Hilliard Ensemble that I heard, but I can't remember either that or the name of the album on which the song resides. Anyone know this one?