Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval

Subject: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 03:55 AM

Yesterday a few of my family went to a theatre adaptation of Terry Pratchett's book The Wyrd Sisters.

It was well done, interesting, enjoyable. But one of the best things about the performance, in my opinion, was the use of music tracks at various points within the play, and at intermission etc which were Mediaeval remakes of modern music tracks. I now know that this is referred to as Bardcore and after looking at YouTube I have found hundreds of tracks which various people have reinterpreted in this genre.

As an example of that search, here is a folk-related track:

Fairytale of New York - Medieval Bardcore Version

Most of the tracks used for the play were recent, e.g. Hit Me Baby by Britney Spears, Rehab by Amy Winehouse, Someone I Used to Know by Gotye, and Dance Monkey by a performer called Tones & I.

Very clever.

Some of the examples on the YouTube list don't seem to "get" Mediaeval music but some definitely do get it.

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 12:52 PM

Britney Spears - 3 (Bardcore/Medieval Style) A medieval style arrangement for flute, vielle, harp, drum, and tambourine by Michael Richardson

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 03:25 PM

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train musicians on lute, drums etc

Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye Arranged and Performed by Hildegard von Blingin, featuring Friar Funk. Lyrics changed to a Mediaeval style of language

The Cranberries - Zombie - The Cranberries performed by Ars Insana

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 03:30 PM

And then there are modern songs translated into ancient languages, e.g.

Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon tongue)

Or Latin, or Ancient Greek, or Old French etc etc.

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 22 Feb 22 - 06:43 PM

No one interested? It's fun, clever, an old twist on new music.

I like it because one of my favourite music books is
this An Elizabethan Songbook which uses similar instruments to the Bardcore, although some of those are electronic versions not actual, real-life heart-melting, reverberating instruments like a lute or a harp etc

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: gillymor
Date: 23 Feb 22 - 08:26 AM

Yep, this is some fun stuff, Helen. Without the lyrics it makes you realize how good some of these tunes are, IMO. I particularly enjoyed "Fairytale..." and "Crazy Train".

Subject: RE: Bardcore - modern music to Mediaeval
From: Helen
Date: 23 Feb 22 - 11:33 AM

Hey gillymor, I knew you would like some of this. Warning: there are hundreds of these remakes - you might get addicted. LOL