List of links is under construction.  Please send suggestions for links to add to this page to Sophia the Orange at dmoas-performance AT atlantia.sca.org.

START HERE:

For those of you new to bardic, or new to Atlantia or the guild, there’s a fantastic site that’s useful for so many reasons. It’s privately maintained and a veritable treasure trove of information and other useful links. Site navigation is easy, so prepare to get lost as you venture down the rabbit hole and have a marvelous time doing it. https://sites.google.com/site/scabardic/

Greg Lindahl’s SCA Minstrel site: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html

VOCAL MUSIC – WORDS, SHEET MUSIC, AND SOME AUDIO FILES

Some historical vocal pieces – http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/vocalmusic.html

Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers (includes pronunciation help) – http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/

Choral Public Domain – http://www.cpdl.org/

Steve Hendricks’ Monster Collection – http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/

East Kingdom Bardic Website (mostly original songs) – http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/BardCollege/bardsong.html

English Madrigals in the Public Domain – http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Oxford_Book_of_English_Madrigals

Troubadors – A repository of troubadour works, many with English translations and midi melodies (troubadour songs weren’t written down with much indication of rhythm, so really just listen to the pitches and do what sounds good to you with rhythm) – http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC – SHEET MUSIC AND AUDIO FILES

Paul Butler Music (historical dance music and other melodies) – http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/music.html

Steve Hendricks’ Monster Collection – http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

Big Database of useful links:   http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/

Old English Ballads – Fascimillies and transcriptions of 16th century broadside ballads without the music attached – http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/

Francis J. Child Ballads (read intro notes carefully, not all of these are SCA Period, many well known variants are very outside period actually…- which is another reason to include this here as a research point 🙂 ) http://www.contemplator.com/child/

Many links from Early Music Chicago with free resources – http://earlymusichicago.org/sheet_music_scores.htm

Musica Viva – http://www.musicaviva.com/fsmd/list.tpl?category=renaissance

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library “by time period” search timeline – http://imslp.org/wiki/Browse_people_by_time_period

Song collection Piae Cantiones – http://www.lillhannus.net/piaecantiones.html

An old (2006) but not horribly outdated listing of some Atlantian poets and their works – http://www.trobaire.org/

 

This is a thorough but not comprehensive list of some places to get you started on your journey through all things bardic, suggested by members of the SCA Bardic Facebook Group including but not limited to Eric Schrager, Monique Bouchard, Lorelei Skye, Alix Evans, and others. Welcome, and enjoy!