ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND MUSIC

MUSIC

• The plays of William Shakesphere were some of the most famous
• It was devolved into sophisticated and varied forms
• There was a few diffrent types of Elizabethian music: Elizabethian Church music, Elizabethian Court
• People during the Elizabethian Era sang for fun and for work

MUSIC

• Music was performed at many diffrent events but not ushally in concerts.
• Music was performed at dinners, dances, masquerades, parties, and plays.
• During the Medieval Era, music accompanied poems

MUSIC Instruments

• Queen Elizabeth herself was a skillful player of both the lute and the virginal
• Popular during this time period were the spinet and the viol.
• most popular instrument of these days was the lute,

Lute

• Looks somewhat like a guitar
• thirteen pairs of strings running the length of the body
• Very difficult to play

DANCE

• During the era of Queen Elizabeth, the dances where categorized by wealth.
• The Upper class men were not aloud to dance because of the size of the musical instrument.
• dancers were imported from Italy,Spain or France Queen Elizabeth encouraged dancing and music to her people

DANCE

• The Masque was a very popular dance
• upper class man Elizabethan court dance called the Volt
• only dance which allowed the dancers could be truly free