What Norse Music of the Viking Age Sounded Like - feat. Ibn Fadlan
This is a very basic, general and introductory overview of what little we do know of the music of Scandinavia during the Viking Age.
Here is the link to the Ensemble Mare Balticum’s recordings which I mention in the video, in which you will hear historically and archeologically informed reconstructions of what Norse music may likely have sounded like using scientific methodology (it’s mostly the first ten minutes that deals with the Viking age, as the rest is centred on post-Christianisation Scandinavian music, I especially recommend starting at the 7th minute as the first parts are only demonstrations of war horns and military calls using lurs):
Here is also my humble attempts in which I illustrate all the historical elements talked about in this video, from the instrumentation to the heterophonic, and heptatonic-diatonic melodic framework with pentatonic tendencies:
Lyre improvisation:
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