MEDIEVAL MUSIC - BLUEGRASS STYLE!?! (1 of 2)

This is a quaint, 12th century song from the time of the Crusades...BLUEGRASS STYLE?! The melody perfomed in this video "Ja Nus Hons Pris", was written by King Richard I (alias "Richard the Lion Heart") whilst awaiting randsom from prison in the Holy Lands during the Crusades...I wonder what he would have made of THIS arrangement of his song?!? YE HA! Pass me ma jug o'Mead Moonshine!!! ;o)

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• medieval
• music
• lute
• viol
• shawm
• sackbutt
• rebec
• ancient
• banjo
• clawhammer
• frailing
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• kentucky
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[ooooooooser]

really great stuff, have been trying to adapt clawhammer to more European stuff my self but with very little luck! could you please tell me what tuning you are using?........also, do you sometimes play fiddle in a pub in Manchester with a Northumbrian small pipe player with tattoos all over his face? if so it was one of the best displays of folk music i've seen. regards

[Klezfiddle1]

What a small world! I take it you mean at the Peveril? There used to be a really cooool Irish music session 10 years ago - now, only said tattood piper & a few aquaintances go, as there is nowhere now to park :o( The tuning is AEADE (the same tuning used in such lonesome Appalachian classics, as "Old Cluck Hen" !)

[petejel05]

great vid, how long you been playing for and did you teach yourself or have lesson?

[Klezfiddle1]

YEE HA! I got bubonic blisters on ma fingers!;o) I taught myself clawhammer way back in 1991 from a Mel Bay instruction book...but only recently discovered just HOW versatile the 5-sting banjo is. Check out my somewhat "Semitically Surreal" series of "JEWGRASS BANJO" videos here on my Youtube Channel - quaint, traditional Eastern European Jewish Klezmer music...KENTUCKY-STYLE!! OY VEY..this could be the start of a whole new "musical" genre..."Hillel Billy" music, perhaps??;o)

[GooseGreen82]

A fine piece of music, expertly played. Yet to modern ears it sounds oddly mournful. Why is that, Klezfiddle? If you could go back to the Middle Ages and play them an upbeat, cheery number, like Paddy McGinty's Goat, would it stike them as it strikes us? Upbeat and jolly?

[Klezfiddle1]

I have had a go at more lively bits of medieval dance music in some of my other "musiocal" experiments on the banjo, but this is meant to be a mournful song...it was composed 800 years ago, during the Crusades, by Richard the Lion Heat, as he languished in a suitable dank and dismal dungeon whilst awaiting randsom!

[maniac79410]

i like this kind of music...so relaxing

[minerva506]

amazing

[xXstrightstonedXx]

OMG an English men with a BANGO, lol

[ToonLinkTink]

Sounds a lot like Eastern religious music also, but with more structure. Not knocking it.

[ooooooooser]

brilliant, thanks for tuning! it must be nearly a year ago since i went to the peveril, it was so good it must have truly embed its self in my memory, very well done to all of you!

[ROBOTkw]

Very interesting! BlueGrass meets King Richard the LionHearted! [Aeolian?] The weird thing is; I stumbled here while looking up lyrics for Riu Riu Chiu, 16thC Spanish. [The MONKEES version is by far the best!] Then I stumbled onto some 13thC Harp, and now Banjo! Oh, and before Riu Riu Chiu, I was looking at SYNTH xmas MusiK, and fancy house lights. 'Strange path through CyberSpace, heading backwards in time. Next up: Gregorian chants, Plainsongs, etc- MusiK is TimeLess. :]

[FlamingLavaOwl]

Going on the crusades to the middle east must have given middle eastern musical influence to the English? because this does sound a bit middle eastern.

[LuciusOctavion]

Cool song. I like stuff like this a lot. This sounds like it would sound better on a bouzouki or octave mandolin but it still sounds ok on banjo.