Dance,Music+and+Music+Instruments+In+Elizabethan+England

Elizabethan England Music,Dance and Music Instrument

Music was important in many different important things, like in weddings warefare, festivals and court life.(olsen 482)

Also at weddings and celebrations they always have dancing going on.(Elgin 22) In a celebration you are most likely to hear drums being played and horns and also bagpipes.(Elgin 22)

They enjoyed music being played in there churchs or homes.(Elgin 22) Servants were expected to play well in front of there employers to try and enterain them.(Olsen 482)

Everyone can play an instrument.(Elgin 22) If they could not play one they were at least expected to keep a tune.(Olsen 482)The musical notes were drawn a little differently but on a staff of lines that looked familiar to todays music notes. (Olsen 483)

String instruments including lutes and cittern were in barber shop for the customers to use.(Olsen 485) You played the lute by plucking the strings with your fingers.(Haynes)

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