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Elizabethan Era-Music

Jenna Starkey

SOURCES

http://www.superteachertools.net/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=1392153088

www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/musicalinstruments.html

www.prezi.com/pmz../musical-instruments-of-the-elizabethan-era

www.mrshadd3rdperiod.com

www.diabolous.org

www.Elizabethan-era.org.uk

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/harpsi.html

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/music/elizabethanchurch.html

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/music/courtmusicians.html

A few famous composers

FUN FACT

A consort was a group of 4-6 people playing different instruments and adding vocals

Recorder

  • Wooden tube with holes
  • Much like today's
  • Played in most consorts

and last...

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

He was a physician, poet and composer of over 100 songs for the lute

Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee

Robert Johnson (1500-1560)

Composed Full Fathom Five and Where the Bee Sucks, which were written for the first performance of William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Full Fathom Five -recorder and lute

Theatre

Six Types of Music

Woodwinds

Hautboy (oh-boy)

  • Decedent of the oboe
  • Derived from the shawm
  • Was the main melody of military music until the clarinet

William Byrd (1543-1623)

Queen Elizabeth's favorite composer who wrote church, consort, and vocal music

  • Theatre music was used for poems
  • The importance of music to the Elizabethans was reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare makes more than 500 references to music in his poems and plays
  • The music helped set the mood and increased dramatic effect that words couldn't

House

Instruments

Harpsichord

  • Music was so popular that Noblemen employed their own musicians
  • At least one servant who could play a musical instrument
  • They had to be able to play or read music on the spot

Church

Court

These composers wrote both Church and Court music:

  • Developed in the 14th century and widely used until the 19th century because the piano beat it out
  • Longer and narrower than a piano, but has the similar shape

popular string instruments

John Dowland

  • Church
  • Town
  • Street
  • Court
  • House
  • Theatre
  • John Dowland
  • Thomas Campion
  • Thomas Morley
  • Robert Johnson
  • Thomas Weelkes
  • Henry VIII

The Viola de Gamba(viol)

6 TYPES

  • Pardessus
  • Treble
  • Alto
  • Small tenor
  • Tenor
  • Bass
  • Violone
  • similar to cello
  • played between the legs
  • played with a bow
  • popular in the 1500s but faded in the 1700s because the viol couldn't compete with the violin's sound and size

Keyboards

Virginal

The Alto Viol

  • Small and with no legs
  • Was usually played on a table
  • It was thought it's name came from the "Virgin Queen"

Lute

Church

Town/ Street

brass:

Trumpets

  • finger plucked
  • very popular
  • like a small guitar
  • strings were made from small intestines of lamb and metal

Church composers wrote music both peaceful and passionate to go beyond the struggles and differences of the religious beliefs

Sackbut

  • 3 types : alto , tenor , bass
  • ancestor of trombone
  • Songs were sung in the villages and fields to ease the dullness of tasks done by the underclass
  • There were feasts, festivals, and fairs where the music was light and easily carried.
  • Fiddles, the lute, and small percussion instruments were used
  • like today's but without valves
  • was harder to play without valves
  • used to announce royalty & during military exercises
  • Town musicians were called 'Waits' and used many high pitched pipes and hautbois (known as Wait pipes)
  • Eventually evolved into groups
  • They were employed by the town
  • Provided free concerts
  • Were expected to compose and play music for important town ceremonies and occasions

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