Landsknecht Music

I just find a few youtube videos of somes that the German landsknechts could've sung in their marches. I think the background has to do with Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximil..._Roman_Emperor) and his wars in the Flanders.



This one probably has to do with Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire thrashing Francis I in Pavia. Basically, Jorg / Georg von Frundsberg captured the French king at Italy.


One more with some drum lyrics.


Just want to share, and all.

Interesting. Good videos.

This is ing awesome, these are the actual songs Landsknecht German mercenaries sang and marched to when on campaign in Italy, Switzerland, Spain, France, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Z6Aez6T3c

That one sounds kinda Soviet, sorta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oM6...eature=related

Imagine wandering around with a bastard sword longer then you are tall resting upon your shoulder. Those dudes knew they were professional badasses, just look at them:

Uhhh....wasn't there a thread about this somewhere else?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=232881

0.0!


That is ing bizarre!

How the..

I seriously did not see that at all.

Who'da thunk it, very same obscure ass songs, only a day apart.

That is actually kinda creepy.

BTW, the first one I posted isn't in seph's topic, so go ahead and enjoy it.

Merge the threads!

I will listen. After Electric Wizard stops crushing my eardrums with their doom.

Second one, not first. :p

Horray!

I will merge zis vor ze glory of ze Landsknechtz!


And as bonus info, yes I know these songs very well, I've even used them in my Huguenot AAR

To be honest, I find the interpretations simply horrible.



The songs themselves are nice though.

I know Landsknecht tour Europe with their tross (family + followers) behind them. Europeans fear them because Landsknecht + family means that Landsknecht can carry more loot.

Btw:
The Huguenots are a bunch of usurpers. Bourbons (mercenary in their faith) stole the throne from the Valois (corrected). Boo....
(LMAO)

Most Landsknechts won't fight each other or at least make a brief show of it when they're in opposing camps. The exceptions would probably be against the Black Regiment or the competing (economically) Reislaufers from Switzerland (who thrashed Maximilian I and gained independence for the Swiss Confederation).

I actually like the second song.

Originally Posted by sephodwyrm

Btw:
The Huguenots are a bunch of usurpers. Bourbons (mercenary in their faith) stole the throne from the Capetians. Boo....
(LMAO)

From Valois. Valois stole it from the Capetians.

Anyways, nice find. And I kind of agree with Blucher, weird interpretations

From Valois. Valois stole it from the Capetians.

Sorz~~

When will the Carolingans ever get France back?

Now that we're at it, doesn't Vercingetorix have any offspring...?

And I've got to partly agree to Blücher, the transcriptions are slightly inaccurate. But not as bad as to call them "horrible".
In the upper vid., it's not "Rideran, Landsknecht voran, Landsknecht voran", but "...frisch voran, Landsknecht voran". That kind of inaccuracy.

I noticed that, it annoyed me.

I like it. It makes me want to play M2TW again.

Oh, and there's not "wind blowing from the money" ("...des ducats"). Geldern is a town at the western border of what Germany is today.
And another proof for how badass those Landsknechts were:
It's not "Ins Feld marschieren geh'n" (="To march into the (battle)field"), but "Ins Feld spazieren geh'n" (="to take a walk/to stroll into the (battle)field").


Yeah, Landsknechts didn't march as such.

Would anyone post the corrected lyrics?

Yeah, Landsknechts didn't march as such.

The Landsknechts were formed after the Reislaufers, right?

That was a snide remark towards them singing "take a walk/stroll" instead of "march", sephodwyrm.