Caroline Ringo
Anna Myers
Music was an important form of entertainment
Music was used to accommodate poems and such
They used music with plays
Music started to reflect moods and emotions
The early 1500’s saw the high point of the uniqueEnglish liturgical style
Elizabethan music was so popular that everynobleman employed his own musicians
Court Musicians/ music
Required a more refined sound
Nobles were expected to entertain their contemporaries and show their prowess in dancing
The range of music played at court varied from traditional to simple English ballads
House Musicians
Anyone in noble class was expected to be able to perform on an instrument and read music on sight
At least one house servant was to be able to play a musical instrument
Street music
Travelling minstrels and troubadours had passed with the bubonic plague
Strangers and travelers were looked upon with fear and suspicion
Street music was played at weekly markets and occasional fairs.
The instruments played to provide Elizabethan street music were light and easily carried
The songs sang were traditional favorites which was a far cry from the sophisticated and refined music of the court
Town music
Called Waits (equivalent to a town band)
Supplied with high-pitched popes or hautboy
Church Music
Was beautiful
Composers composed music for both church and court
Madrigal and the are were distinct styles used for voice
Included canzonets, ballets madrigals and sacred songs
Theater Music
The importance of music was reflected in plays of William Shakespeare
Each genre of play required a different emotion to be reflected in the music
As you like it contains six songs
Queen Elizabeth employed at least 70 musicians andsingers
Music was being taught in schools and in universities
Queen Elizabeth was a patron of all arts
Encouraged composers and musicians
Taught how to play musical instruments as part of hereducation
Queen Elizabeth enjoyed dancing and practiced everymorning
was a skilled musician of the lute and the virginal
It devolved into sophisticated and varied forms
The idea of accompanying plays with music wasinspired
The introduction of musical instruments such as theearly violin called the viola
The early oboe called the nautbal
And keyboard instruments such as the spinet,harpsichord and the virginals.
Dancing was an extremely popular pastime during theElizabethan era
Dancing Masters were suitably employed
Elizabethan dances differed between the Upper andLower Classes
Upper Classes enjoyed new types of music at court. Theyhad a taste for new music and new dances
