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Anything you darn well want, given the instruments at hand. What you refer to as classical music didn't actually exist in our world until we were well after the stage that the palladium world exists in (something around 13th century). We don't have large amounts of music from our world in that time period to go by, though there are small samples available. The ones I have listened to are generally slighty dissonant, without a large number of chords, though they could get into very complex melody/harmony interactions. A lot of pipes and high pitch string, minimum percussion.

Heh, I should ask my mother about this, she's a musicologist. Will do so if I remember next time I talk to her.

I would start by looking at Early Music. Specifically, Medieval and Renaissance music because they represent a fluid continuance which ended abruptly with the Baroque perdiod. Baroque seems, to me anyway, to ... modern (if you can call a period that started, what, 400 years ago modern) for a fantasy setting.

Twitchfingers wrote:It was all pretty much lame music, butt hey maybe your bard could be different and start changing the way people look at music.

ROCK ON !!

Lame?

There are some ancient songs that rule.

Sack of Troy.

Actually ... it would be more like medieval, folk, or traditional music...

I don't think even the Dwarves or orcs have invented thrash metal yet... you need electricity for that anyway, because without it, you'll never hear the mandolin over the drums ... ( and you don't want to even THINK of making some Iron Maiden or Rammstein stuff of accordion and drums)

DarkWarriorKarg wrote:Rock trolls attack you with their sonic "axes"!

>Shudder<

Flashbacks of reading the Robotech supplement "Lancer's Rockets"...

Sure go ahead with heavy meatl trolls that would be cool. in my world I actually have a grgoup called Petty Tom and the Heartcleavers that sing She was An Bizatium Girl. And a group called The ArrowSmiths who are popular with the peasant for their song Eat the Rich.

I could do better than the origional with a broom n' bucket bango.

Geronimo wrote:I once heard a harp player pluck out a great rendition of Stairway to heaven in a Hotel lobby.

Led Zep on the Harp? must be worth listening to