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 unique English liturgical style Elizabethan music was so popular that every nobleman 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 and singers 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 her education Queen Elizabeth enjoyed dancing and practiced every morning was a skilled musician of the lute and the virginal

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 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 the Elizabethan era Dancing Masters were suitably employed Elizabethan dances differed between the Upper and Lower Classes Upper Classes enjoyed new types of music at court. They had a taste for new music and new dances