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  • Recorder
  • Flute
  • Sackbut
  • Bagpipes
  • Trumpet
  • Lute
  • Viol
  • Dulcimer
  • Harpsichord
  • Virginal
  • Organ

Elizabethan Music

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Genres

Court

"What Child Is This ?"

  • Queen Elizabeth
  • elite musicians tutored
  • diverse styles by event
  • bands for banquets and balls
  • state occasions had drums and trumpets
  • keyboard instruments monopolized
  • refined sound

String instruments

Wind Instruments

Church

Theatre

Royal Chapel

  • focus on Jesus Christ
  • break with Catholic
  • shun saints and Mary
  • Royal Chapel
  • William Byrd
  • "La Volta" and "Gloria"
  • last Latin collections
  • Catholic
  • William Shakespeare's plays
  • styled towards emotion
  • well-known songs
  • "Greensleeves"
  • "Light O' Love"
  • 'special effects' music

Instruments

Orlando Gibbons

(1583-1625)

Keyboard Instruments

William Byrd

(1539-1623)

  • Organist of Chapel Royal
  • Wrote over forty anthems
  • Music was published after death
  • First to write madrigals
  • Organist of the Lincoln cathedral
  • Elizabeth 1 granted him a joint monopoly

John Dowland

(1563-1626)

  • Most famous lute player
  • Appointed as a professional lute player for Sir Henry Cobham
  • Wrote ninety works for the lute

Composers

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