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Popular Music

Popular music in the Elizabethan era were hymns and secular songs. For lower classes, simple songs and ballads was hip to ease their difficult tasks. Music became popular through places where people gathered such as church, theaters, streets, towns, and even courts. Each venue, except for courts, had their own style of music from lively to solemn. Courts played a variety of styles of music.

Elizabethan Church Music

Music played in churches during the Elizabethan era

-played in more than one part

-played as canzonets, balletts, madrigals and 'sacred songs'

-showed sophisticated and unique English liturgical styles

-often light-hearted, religious, and only parts of songs

-a famous church musician was William Bryd

Most Famous Elizabethan Songs

-Greensleeves

*a ballad about an inconstant lover named Lady Greensleeves

-Now is the Month of Maying

*English Balletts played during church hours

-This Sweet and Merry Month of May

*a solemn madrigal also often played in churches

Elizabethan

Music

Elizabethan Theater Music

Theater Music

-reflected emotions

-enhanced dramatic events and feelings during plays, most written by William Shakespeare

-music became much more expressive

-used different instruments to create different tones that went with the emotion of the play

-famous theater musician was Robert Johnson, he played for William Shakespeares performance of the Tempest

Famous Musicians

-William Byrd

* he wrote church, consort, and vocal music

* he was also a Queen Elizabeth I favorite

-Thomas Campion

*he was a very poetic composer

*wrote many of his songs complimenting the lute

-John Dowland

*he was a composer and a singer

*known for his melancholy songs

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Elizabethan Street Music

-was played at weekly markets and occassional fairs

-played traditional favorites

-expressed fun and outgoing moods

-popular street style musician was John Dowland

Elizabethan Instruments

*stringed instruments

*wind instruments

*percussion instruments

*keyboard instruments

-no song was made to be played by a specific instrument

-the most popular instrument was the Lute

*an instrument from the medieval era

Elizabethan Town Music

-played by official musicians

-'The Waits' were a popular town band

-town music was full of different tones of instruments

-sounded subtle to help people through their days

Elizabethan Court Music

-creative and unusual

-played with stringed instruments because they were popular at this time

-every style of music was popular in courts

*sophisticated madrigals

*solemn church music

*lively dance songs

*traditional ballads

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