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Royal patronage was a major factor in the company's success since it ensured both a ready supply of new music from the court musicians and a market for its publications. [6] Over the following two decades other rival companies dropped out of the market and from the 1570s onwards Le Roy & Ballard enjoyed a virtual monopoly in music publishing.
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana, United States. [3] The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the seventh-most populous city in Indiana and the fourth-most populous outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
The first use of the term air de cour was in Adrian Le Roy's Airs de cour miz sur le luth (Book on Court Tunes for the Luth), [1] a collection of music published in 1571. The earliest examples of the form are for solo voice accompanied by lute; [2] towards the end of the 16th century, four or five voices are common, sometimes accompanied (or instrumental accompaniment may have been optional ...
The University Courts Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Two duplexes and a house clustered about a central courtyard Harlos Apartments Greek houses
The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox.Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box with a flat top, typically with one or three sound holes decorated with rosettes.
Lute (from Latin Lutum, meaning mud, clay etc.) [1] was a substance used to seal and affix apparatus employed in chemistry and alchemy, and to protect component vessels against heat damage by fire; it was also used to line furnaces.
The Bloomington, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area comprising two counties (Monroe and Owen) in south-central Indiana. The city of Bloomington in Monroe County is the area's principal municipality and its anchor. At the 2010 United States census, the MSA had a population of 192,714.
Lutes made by Laux Maler were highly prized by musicians in the seventeenth century. In April 1645 Constantijn Huygens tried to obtain a nine rib Laux Maler lute from Jacques Gaultier, a lutenist at the court of Charles I of England. Gaultier said there were only fifty extant, six in London, of medium size and not suitable to accompany a singer.