Navarr music

The Music of Navarr

Style summary

Music generally for celebration not war, songs sung while performing work, songs about travelling, fate, forests, and blood. Navarr bards are very into their heritage; lost cities and sacrifice but music concentrates on remembrance rather than lamentation. Sources are primarily Scottish, Irish, Canadian, Galician and gypsy folk tunes, fast fiddle and pipes alongside soft unison singing.

Commonly known songs

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A musical tradition

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Further examples

More examples for keen bards.

Songs

• I Come and Stand at Every Door

Instrumentation

Strings, whistles and bagpipes, drums and voices.

Other performance traditions

• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.

How to adapt your repertoire

No tradition would be 'wrong' in the Navarr as they travel throughout the Empire. However, to keep a distinctive sound for Navarr music, try to encourage unison singing.

Our sources

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