bardic songs
Lyric oral traditions
Bardic songs are musical compositions in the tradition of bards—poet-musicians who performed narrative verse, often accompanying themselves on harp or lyre.
The term appears most often in fantasy games and literature, where bards cast magic through song: The bardic song granted the party courage in battle.
In historical contexts, it refers to the oral poetry traditions of Celtic cultures.
- harpPlucked orchestral strings
- lyreSmall plucked string instrument
- wandering minstrelTraveling musical performer
- heroic talesStories of great deeds
- heroic deedsCourageous acts of valor
battle hymns · ballads · epic poetry · oral history · lute · sagas · kennings · story · folklore · mead hall · drinking songs · mythology · meter · griots · ancestral spirits · recitation · communal singing · creation myth
- Welsh Musicmale voice choirs, Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Duffy, male voice choir
- ancient songsdirges, elegies, epic songs, harvest songs, healing songs
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad
- Celtic Folkjigs, reels, bodhrán, Irish jig, Irish jigs
- Irish MusicU2, Irish folk, The Cranberries, Van Morrison, traditional tunes
- Slavic epicsbyliny, epic heroes, heroic tales, epic songs
bardic songstechnical manuals
Specialized instruction documents
legal documents · newspaper articles · prose fiction · silent reading · textbooks
bardic songscasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
everyday speech · small talk · idle chatter · bureaucratese · elevator music