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Elizabethan music experienced a shift in popularity from sacred to secular music and the rise of instrumental music. Professional musicians were employed by the Church of England, the nobility, and the rising middle-class. Elizabeth I was fond of music and played the lute and virginal, sang, and even claimed to have composed dance music.
The era is most famous for its theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad, while back at home, the Protestant Reformation became more acceptable to the people, most certainly after the Spanish Armada was repelled.
John Farmer (c. 1570 – c. 1601) was an important composer of the English Madrigal School. [1] He was born in England during the Elizabethan period, and was also known by his skillful settings for four voices of the old church psalm tunes. [2]
In late sixteenth-century England the word "consort" on its own was normally applied to groups of diverse instruments coming from different families, [5] and the sense of the term "broken" in the Elizabethan era refers primarily to division, the "breaking" of long notes into shorter ones. [6] "It is the shimmering effect of this 'sweet broken ...
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Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer.
The earliest documented example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne’s The Princelye Pleasures (1576). [1] Only from the mid-17th century has there been a clear distinction made between a ‘whole’, or ‘closed’ consort, that is, all instruments of the same family (for example, a set of viols played together) and a ‘mixed’, or ‘broken’ consort ...
Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, [1] best known for his Tudor pastiche Elizabethan Masque. [2] [3] Born in London (as Frederick James Baycock) he attended Brighton School of Music, took lessions from organist R H Timberley and composer Eric Thiman, and attained his ARCO. [4]