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Most brilliant form of English secular vocal music during the Elizabethan period?
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madrigals :P
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During his years in Cöthen Bach wrote more of which kind of music than ever before?
Secular music
Who is Herbert lumby?
Herbert Lumby is the name of several composers in at least two countries. Two are English, and one is Canadian. One of the English composers was active during the Elizabethan era, while the other is a mid twentieth century composer.
During the Baroque era this changed with the rise of?
secular music
What were the salient characteristics of secular music during the medieval period?
The word secular means 'non-religious', that's the dictionary definition. By the way, secular does not mean evil. Religious music is used during religious services or for personal devotions. Secular music is used in different ways.
What was the chief form of Italian secular music during the rennissance?
Madrigal
What was the language in England during the Elizabethan era?
Early Modern English. Sometimes called Shakespearean English. If you read any Shakespearean play you will read English as it was then said in the Elizabethan era.
Why did the tradgety of Macbeth and other Elizabethan plays represent a radical shift in English drama?
Macbeth was not an Elizabethan play. It was a distinctly Jacobean one. There was a shift in English plays in the Elizabethan period. They weren't about religion as earlier morality and mystery plays had been (see Everyman). They started to write tragedies based on the Roman model (Gorbuduc) or comedies using classical or indigenous secular forms (Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer Gurton's Needle). This change, however, happened fifty years before Macbeth was written, during which time a completely new secular style had developed and become extremely popular.
What happened to English theater during the Elizabethan period?
Answer this question… . More people attended plays.
What was going on culturally during Shakespeare's life?
Shakespeare lived and wrote in the Elizabethan Era, the English Renaissance.
What is the age during which Shakespeare lived called in history?
It's called the elizabethan Age or English Renaissance.
What are differences between Elizabethan language and Modern English?
Elizabethan language, used during the time of Queen Elizabeth I's reign in the late 16th century, differ from Modern English in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and spelling. Elizabethan language may feature archaic words and expressions, different verb conjugations, and alternate spellings. This can make Elizabethan English challenging for modern readers to understand without translation or context.
What is elizabethan clothing?
Elizabethan clothing is clothing during the Elizabethan age. In other words, this is the age of Shakespeare and the bubonic plague.
What are the other names of Elizabethan Theater?
Strictly speaking the Elizabethan Theatre was the theatre during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England 1558-1603. The Shakespearean Theatre was the theatre during the career of William Shakespeare, being 1590-1613 more or less. As you see, there was a lot of Elizabethan Theatre before Shakespeare got started and he also did a lot of work after her death, during the period of the Jacobean Theatre. The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are sometimes called English Renaissance Theatre.
Was slavery happening in Elizabethan times?
Yes, slavery was present during Elizabethan times in England. Many English merchants were involved in the transatlantic slave trade, where Africans were captured and transported to the Americas to be sold as slaves. Additionally, there were instances of domestic slavery within England during this period.
Who performed afternoon plays in Elizabethan London during the Elizabethan era?
Traveling companies (apex)
Why is the Renassiance in England reffered to as the Elizabethan age?
It's not. Elizabethan times were the last fifty years of the English Renaissance, but as they were its height during England, they are regarded as its zenith. The death of Elizabeth I in 1603 is widely regarded as one of the markers of the end of the Renaissance.
What is driven in elizabethan?
There is no such language as Elizabethan. People in England during the reign of Elizabeth I spoke English, the same language I am using right now. And in English, the word for driven is of course . . . "driven". You've heard of the expression "as white as the driven snow"? That's Shakespeare in the Winter's Tale, and he was certainly Elizabethan. He also had one of his characters say, "I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives."
