Lochac Music

Music is central to many people's enjoyment of the Society for Creative Anachronism, in the Kingdom of Lochac.
This site exists to host songbooks, and to direct people to useful resources. 

Yule Carols

Songs which are traditionally sung at Yule/Christmas celebrations. 

Rowany traditionally sings two songs at their annual Yule Feast - Boar's Head and Gloucester Wassail.

Part music songbooks and sheet music resources

These are vocal harmony, polyphony or counterpoint - usually needing several different people to sing different lines at the same time (or "choral music"). Rounds/canons are included.

• Rowany Festival Songbook Volume 1 ASXL - Bethan Daniels of Brockwood

• Rowany Festival Songbook Volume 2 ASLVI *NEW in 2022*! -Annabel de Swinburne, Bethan Daniels of Brockwood - and a sheet of notes and fixes
  Rowany Festival Songbook Vol 2 ASLVI webpage all PDFs and NWCs

• The Big Lochac Songbook - Edition by Magistra Constanzia y da Zamora 

• Lant Roll transcription - Transcription from the original by Master Crispin Sexi

• The Lochac Virtual Songbook - Dafydd of the Glens

• Cantiones Secundae - Elen Benet, Barony of Southron Gaard

• Ceoltoiri Aneala Songbook 2017 - Isabel de Annesley

• https://sg.lochac.sca.org/home/arts-and-sciences/song-and-dance-music/ - Barony of Southron Gaard

Further reading:

• Joan and Crispin's website - with some transcriptions of John Wilbye's works, as well as articles on music and other subjects, and music composed by Crispin in the period style

• SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage - many links to many resources

• Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)  - lots of free sheet music to download; much is later than period; modern editions

• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)- many scanned out-of-copyright manuscripts, as well as recordings

Folk music songbooks and resources

These are songs which are usually sung solo (or many people in unison). In the SCA we often call this this 'Bardic' style or campfire singing, and most of the songbooks have a mix of period and modern folk songs, SCA invention, and filk (new words to a modern song).  

Nunc est Canendum - Kaitorix Avernom, for Inter-College War AS LIX

The Known Words Songbook  - Karl Faustus von Aachen aka Eric the Fruitbat

Ursulan Top Ten Songbook - Bethan Daniels of Brockwood

A Book of Gwen - Gwen verch David; her own compositions, folk, filk and period

Rowany Festival ASL Bardic Circle Songbook aka John's Bardic Songbook - John Longshanks

Cattus Lamentatio - Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora & Acacia de Navarre, Barony of St Florian-de-le-Riviere; rounds as well as solo songs.

http://ildhafn.lochac.sca.org/oldsite/ceciliasongbook.htm - Baroness Cecilia, Barony of Ildhafn

Bonfire Songbook for the College of Blessed Herman - NSFW! 

Further reading:

SCA Minstrel Homepage https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html - many links to many resources

Dance music resources - sheet music

Music is often played at balls or during events, for people to dance to.

Jeneur's excellent Dance Book - for high alto; for low alto
PLEASE NOTE: all the arrangements have permission for use within the SCA, permissions for other uses may require negotiation with the arranger

SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance.html - many links to many resources