Navarr music
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 Basque/French folk tunes, fast fiddle and pipes alongside soft unison singing.
Commonly known songs
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A musical tradition
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One for the kids
Further examples
More examples for keen bards.
Songs
- I Come and Stand at Every Door - sad song about the fall of Navarri cities, easy.
- All the Pretty Ponies - lullaby remembering extinct horses, very easy.
- Ten Thousand Miles - song of love/travelling, medium.
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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