New Music Query

[orichalcum]

All right, new music question of the day: something that works well with the Agricultural Revolution and the first domestication of animals (with some discussion of Siberian foxes.) 

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[marginaleye]

Hildegard von Bingen's O Viridissima Virga.

The modern Jocelyn Montgomery/David Lynch version is available on YouTube:

[kenjari]

There's the traditional tune "Speed the Plough". Here's a list of recordings, mostly by Irish groups.
Bartok's Mikrokosmos has a cute song about a fox (No. 95) stealing chickens on a farm. I have a recording of pantsie and I doing it.
Check out the box set (3 CDs) Les Mysteres Des Voix Bulgares. Several of the songs have to do with farming, and there is one about a fox.
If you want to go farther afield, check out the Tuvan group Huun Huur Tu. A lot of the more traditional material is about herding horses.
There's also the Tom Waits songs "Get Behind the Mule" and "Murder in the Red Barn".

[pantsie]

I was thinking of our Bartok piece, too! So cute.

[marginaleye]

You might also try Jethro Tull's "Heavy Horses"

[contrariety]

This was my immediate first thought! :)

[retsuko]

Neko Case's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood". ;D

Alison Kraus & Union Station's "Pastures of Plenty".

[orichalcum]

Ooh, pastures of plenty is very appropriate, good idea!

[changinganswers]

"Who Let the Dogs Out?" Okay in all seriousness, what about:

"Cowboy Night Herd Song" by Roy Rogers

or "Greet the Sacred Cow" by Primus- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-WNpEfsjs

It has lines about hands being full of protein and having fire...plus awesome bass!