The Nice Part of Town
Added 2021-01-25 14:42:13 +0000 UTC"Barleywine" is going to see a lot of playtime in your campaign I suspect. Everyone ends up in fantasy villages doing standard fantasy roleplaying eventually, so it seems like a pretty universally useful tune to have in your library.
Many adventures will eventually have you making your way to the upper echelons of society as well. While early quests may be given at a tavern, later tasks may be provided by the hand of the king or perhaps a wealthy benefactor. For those more regal or aristocratic NPCs and locations you might want to play up their esteem with traditionally more "upper scale" instrumentation: swap the random zithers and psalteries for harpsichord and contrabass, the recorders for flute and viola, and ditch the tambourine all together!
I think ultimately you'll be able to use both of these tracks more or less interchangeably, but hopefully you will find some use in distinguishing the two parts of town from each other with the subtle difference between these two versions.
As always, looping mp3s of both tracks are also provided below.
