Whole batches of stuff.

A couple of albums of troubadour songs by the Martin Best Consort.

A five-inch pile of CDs by the Baltimore Consort, and others by individual members of the group.

The Tallis Scholars.

Many others.

Getting really early, I recently acquired a DVD by Benjamin Bagby of Sequentia doing the first thousand lines or so of Beowulf (said to be the earliest preserved work of English Literature, circa 800 A.D.). Basically intoning, chanting, singing, and accompanying himself on the Anglo-Saxon lyre-harp (CLICKY). Probably the nearest thing to an ancient skald or bard doing his thing. Goosebumps!

Complete with extra features. Commentaries, discussions of the work and way of performing.

I was turned on to this by Seattle folk singer Nancy Quensé, who has recently been singing with the Seattle Medieval Women's Choir and a couple of other groups.

I have read that this was more than likely the way works like the Iliad and the Odyssey were done:   reciting, sometimes chanting, to occasional lyre accompaniment.

Been really into this stuff lately!

Don Firth