I am looking for some very simple 'atmosphere' pieces appropriate to Camelot and a chien-less Sinphone (D-G) that could fill about 15 minutes and still allow me to focus on the people, stopping and answering questions, moving on, that kind of thing. Early music preferred, earlier the better..
For "earlier" I suggest anything from Carmina Burana (such as "In Taberna"), Libre Vermell, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria (entire canon to be found online in midi form; recommend esp. #1, 7, 42, 111, 166, 353, 391). If you have access to a university library, Fletcher Collins' "Troubadour's Songbook" is beyond praise. Al Cofrin's first book has some workable and really old pieces.
Some Titles
"Quant je Voi retorner"
"Rei Glorios" (Troubadour's Songbook)
"Lamento di Tristan"
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel"
"Song of the Ass" ("Orientis Partibus")
"Angelus ad Viginem"
"Edi Be Thu"
"The King" (Note: relates to the sacrificed sparrow of ancient Winter Solstice ritual)
"Miri It Is"
"Sumer is icumen in"
"Ja Nuns Hons Pris" by Richard Couer de Lion
"Mariam Matrem Virginem Attollite" (Libre Vermell)
"L'Homme Arme"
