MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Viol, Lute, Shawm
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Madrigals of gesualdo: will upload youtube links. Knew ea. other"s music even though dowland was younger bc he was so famous: struggled to find a pos. at the english court; traveled widely in eur. A way to make money as a musician and a composer comfortable, don"t have to travel as much. He had to travel a lot, playing for kings, queens, upper class people: published books of lute songs and music for viol consort. Lute song a composition for lute and voice. Viol kind of like the modern cello: obtained a court position under james i from 1612-1626. Didn"t last too long, but gave him some stability in his life. James i wasn"t as much a patron of the arts as elizabeth i: consort music kind of precursor to ensembles/bands, whole consort consists of instruments of the same type (lutes, viols, etc. ) Nice for indoors: broken consort mixes instrument types aka mixed consort .
