Bardcore

Medievalised remakes of hit songs — complete with lutes, flutes and ye olde-style lyrics — are booming online. What bardcore Age: A couple of months if we ignore Sting, bardcore.

Bardcore [a] or tavernwave is a musical microgenre that became popular in , consisting of medieval-inspired remakes of popular songs. In December , before the term bardcore was widely known, a medieval version of " Toxicity " by System of a Down was published on YouTube by Algal the Bard. By , it had achieved a few million views. The track is a remake of Tony Igy 's electronic dance track " Astronomia ", which had gained widespread attention as the soundtrack to the coffin dance meme. Link followed this a few weeks later with a medieval-style instrumental version of Foster the People 's " Pumped Up Kicks ", which Canadian YouTuber [5] Hildegard von Blingin' a play on the name of the medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen [6] then re-released with an added vocal track using a medieval-style adaptation of the original lyrics. By the end of June, both versions had reached 4 million views.

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Medievalised remakes of hit songs — complete with lutes, flutes and ye olde-style lyrics — are booming online. What giveth? Age: A couple of months if we ignore Sting. Musicologists may come to see 20 April as the starting point. Appearance: Modern hit songs played on medieval instruments, often with medievalised lyrics. Is that a big thing?

Bardcore

The song, "What is Love," is performed in a "medieval style" by Cornelius Link. Soft, soothing lutes, whirring flutes and gentle drums abound. Related: 'Scents of Normality' captures the essence of everyday life before lockdown.

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Comments … Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. Beasts of War Ltd. List of composers List of music theorists List of musical instruments. But, more importantly, he had created a genre if we carry on ignoring Sting. Marchetto da Padova. Medieval folk rock neo-medieval music pop EDM power metal. M on their official YouTube channel. Toggle limited content width. Laughing Squid. The Guardian.

One of the strangest, yet amazing, developments has been the rise in popularity of a sub-genre of music called Bardcore. This genre of music takes popular songs and re-imagines them as medieval songs. Seemingly originating from a YouTube channel called Cornelius Link, the first popular Bardcore song was a medievalised version of Astronomia.

Tell me more about Cornelius. Pretty good, I suppose. Because he complicates the chronology. Lates, Internet. By the end of June, both versions had reached 4 million views. M on their official YouTube channel. In a way, he could be said to have anticipated all this with his album Songs from the Labyrinth , on which he sang songs by the English Renaissance composer John Dowland accompanied by lutenist Edin Karamazov. Trecento Predecessors Marchetto da Padova. The pandemic is thought to be significant, with a new Black Death hovering over us all. Vice Media.