Music was an extra effect added in the 1600's through a French influence. The musicians would also reside in the Lords rooms. Elizabethan music was heard in churches, in the streets, in the courts, and in theaters and has a specific rhythm that reminds Baroque music. Anthems, madrigals, and operas were popular musical forms of the period. Two English composers of the Elizabethan Age were William Byrd, John Dowland and Thomas Tallis. William Shakespeare's plays are full of songs and references to music. Theater musicians played either on stage, above the stage, or even under the stage. In the Elizabethan era, most actors had to be able to sing and dance to be able to perform any role in a play. Not being able to sing or dance could damage their chances of being successful.
Instruments
Several musical instruments were invented during this time, and belonged to four kinds of musical kinds (string, keyboard, wind and percussion): The hautboy, an early version of the oboe (used in Shakespeare’s Macbeth); an early violin, called a viol, and a keyboard known as the spinet or harpsichord. The Chittarone is a lute which could reach 6 feet tall. It had an elongated neck to which long bass strings were attached to an additional peg-box. But the most popular instrument played in the Elizabethan era was the lute, a musical instrument from the Medieval era, which is a kind of guitar. The different instruments were used to represent the status of each person. If the scene was happy, a fast beat type of song was played while if the scene indicated sorrow or sadness, the music was much slower.
Hautboy:
YANAGITA tokinori – woodwind maker.Baroque and early classical flute traverse and oboe (hautboy) maker.
Viol:
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