Unexpected Renaissance Music Find...

[Scribble]

SO I was looking through the Zune marketplace ( the Microsoft answer to iTunes...) and stumbled accross a Renaissance section in the classical genre...

I don't know why but this was just strangely unexpected.

I guess if you're looking for Greensleeves style music for your game this might be interesting? They only have two albums though.

 

[Oryan77]

What are the albums? I don't use Zune, but I'd like to look the albums up on Amazon.

 

[Scribble]

What are the albums? I don't use Zune, but I'd like to look the albums up on Amazon.

Dude you want me to type all those album titles out???? hah

Watkins Ale: Music of The English Renaissance
Blackmore's Night: Secret Voyage

 

[Oryan77]

Dude you want me to type all those album titles out???? hah

Well, not all of them. Maybe just 1 or 2 of them if you don't mind haha, thanks, I'm gonna check em out.

 

[Crothian]

Sting has a nice album Songs from the Labyrinth.

 

[Lanefan]

Blackmore's Night: Secret Voyage

Blackmore's Night have a bunch of albums out; Secret Voyage being merely the most recent. Your Friendly Local Record Store should have a few of 'em.

(and if the name Blackmore sounds familiar, it is: yes, this *is* the same Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow fame...)

Lan-"I can see the fires at midnight"-efan

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dang, Lanefan beat me to it.

Danny- "Child in time" -alcatraz

 

[Alt F4]

Another good source for this type of music is Cantaria. They have a very small selection of songs from 1600 and earlier, but a lot of the stuff that was made later has a Medieval feel to it. Many of their songs have full or partial MP3s available for download.

Another way to search for this type of music is under the term "early music". Here's an early music FAQ.

 

[Scribble]

Blackmore's Night have a bunch of albums out; Secret Voyage being merely the most recent. Your Friendly Local Record Store should have a few of 'em.

(and if the name Blackmore sounds familiar, it is: yes, this *is* the same Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow fame...)

Lan-"I can see the fires at midnight"-efan

Yeah when I clicked on the group, they apparently have a bunch. A lot of them though just can't be listened to with the music pass, and you have to buy all the MP3s together as an album.

 

[falcarrion]

nox arcana has some great albums.