The League music
The Music of The League
Style summary
The League is a combination of different cultures and its performance traditions reflect that. High art in all its forms, theatre and songs laced with innuendo and hidden meaning, characters who delight in cunning and trickery, flamboyance, opera and baroque/classical stylings accompanied by flutes, guitars, and even brass, themes of playfulness, loyalty and ingenuity. Low culture: comedy song, street magic, and clever rhyming, often poking fun at someone or something. For the music of the League, look to European classical music, particularly Italian and German including arias, lieder, and classical instrumental music, and folk music with the theme of deals, cunning, trickery, flamboyance, or loyalty.
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
- Uncle Vyig - funny song about organised crime
- Treggajoran Wartha - song about rings and trickery
- Say Gentle Ladies - medium difficulty Mozart aria. A lovely English language arrangement is available to buy here
- Flower duet (Google it)
- Lovely Joan - medium song with a moral
Instrumentation and tunes
Recorders, flutes and whistles, classically played guitar or stringed instrument, violin, classical accordion.
Other performance traditions
How to adapt your repertoire
- For 'low culture' sing in a tongue in cheek way, have a game or a joke with your audience.
- For 'high art' sing in an operatic way, up the drama!
- When playing folk tunes, try to pick ones that are a bit classical or baroque sounding, a good example is The Gale by Susan Conger
Our sources
Credits, links to artists, further material etc.