Caroline Ringo

Anna Myers

Renaissance music

Music was an important form of entertainment

Music was used to accommodate poems and such

They used music with playsMusic started to reflect moods and emotions The early 1500’s saw the high point of the

unique English liturgical style Elizabethan music was so popular that every

nobleman employed his own musicians

How music impacted entertainment

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

Different kinds of musicians and Music

Queen Elizabeth employed at least 70 musicians and singers

Music was being taught in schools and in universities

Queen Elizabeth was a patron of all artsEncouraged composers and musiciansTaught how to play musical instruments as part

of her education Queen Elizabeth enjoyed dancing and practiced

every morning was a skilled musician of the lute and the virginal

Queen Elizabeth and music

It devolved into sophisticated and varied forms

The idea of accompanying plays with music was inspired

The introduction of musical instruments such as the early violin called the violaThe early oboe called the nautbal And keyboard instruments such as the spinet,

harpsichord and the virginals.

How music evolved

Dancing was an extremely popular pastime during the Elizabethan era

Dancing Masters were suitably employedElizabethan dances differed between the

Upper and Lower ClassesUpper Classes enjoyed new types of music at

court. They had a taste for new music and new dances

Elizabethan dance