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Elizabethean Music!!!   ** This is almost three percent of your brain!! They may not sound too exciting but when you think of how powerful your brain is you might realize that three percent devoted to music is pretty amazing!! **
 *  Would we even have music if there were no composers? Would we ever have that song stuck in our heads? Nope! And with that favorite song of yours there is a composer who wrote it. In 1558 people's lives revolved around the theatre and music. There's that word again! Believe it or not.....You actually have to use your brain to play and read music! Who Knew?? The part of the brain is called the Premotor Cortex. **


 * The Elizabethean era was one of the most prominent era's of music. Like I said before we wouldn't have music without composers and we wouldn't have composers if people hadn't realized the capability of their brains. See it all makes sense!!! The most famous composers in the Elizabethean era were William Byrd and Orlando Gibbens. Orlando Gibbons is still famous in our ACTS Voice Focus class! We have mastered one of his most famous songs, "Clap Your Hands". **

 **"Clap Your Hands" was originally an eight part madrigal. He wrote the song at an extremly young age showing yet again that anyone can use that small part of their brains to create masterpieces.**

**<- Orlando Gibbons **


 *  William Byrd was yet another amazing artist! Sadly he only wrote nine pieces of music. William, unlike many artist was able to work under an already amazing composer, Thomas Tallis and eventually went into a partnership with him. **

**<-- William Byrd **


 *  Even though Composers were the beginning of it all, they wouldn't have gone very far without the beautiful inventions we call instruments, and when instruments and composers come together,they create songs! **


 * "Greensleeves" was a very famous song during the Elizabethean era and is still performed by musicians today! **

Green sleeves Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you well and long, Delighting in your company.

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Chorus: <span style="color: #0fae0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Green <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">sleeves was all my joy <span style="color: #0fae0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Green <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">sleeves was my delight, <span style="color: #0fae0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Green <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">sleeves was my heart of gold, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And who but my lady <span style="color: #0fae0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">green <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">sleeves.

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Your vows you've broken, like my heart, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Oh, why did you so enrapture me? <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Now I remain in a world apart <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">But my heart remains in captivity.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">I have been ready at your hand, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">To grant whatever you would crave, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">I have both wagered life and land, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Your love and good-will for to have.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">If you intend thus to disdain, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">It does the more enrapture me, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And even so, I still remain <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">A lover in captivity.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">My men were clothed all in green, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And they did ever wait on thee; <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">All this was gallant to be seen, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And yet thou wouldst not love me.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Thou couldst desire no earthly thing, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">but still thou hadst it readily. <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Thy music still to play and sing; <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And yet thou wouldst not love me.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Well, I will pray to God on high, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">that thou my constancy mayst see, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">And that yet once before I die, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.

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<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Ah, <span style="color: #0fae0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Green <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">sleeves, now farewell, adieu, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">To God I pray to prosper thee, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">For I am still thy lover true, <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Come once again and love me.

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 * <span style="color: #ed4a02; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;"> "Greensleeves" Is a traditional English folk song. Believe it or not, royalty can be intellegent lyricist too! King Henry VIIII ( The 8th) created a one hit wonder with Greensleeves. Greensleeves was written about Anne Boleyn when she rejected the kings proposal. Later they were married and she became the second of his six wives. Their marrige ended three years later when Anne gave him a daughter but sadly lost both of his sons. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">﻿ **<span style="color: #00ff03; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">One of the most famous and rather comical instruments used was the Sackbut. The Sackbut was an instrument that was very similar to the modern Trombone. The Sackbut's most interesting feature was that there were four different sizes that all played different pitches. ** <span style="color: #00ff03; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;"> ﻿ **1st: Double Bass**
 * <span style="color: #00ff03; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">2nd: Bass **
 * <span style="color: #00ff03; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">3rd: Tenor **
 * <span style="color: #00ff03; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">4th: Alto **


 * <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;"> Right now we have Rap and Pop but in the Elizabethean era there genres of music were a bit different. Two of the six were House Music and Church Music. House music was common for Noble Man. Every Noble Man employed a musician for their home. Middle class households made sure to hire servants who could play music and all middle class people were expected to know how to play an instrument and sight read. **


 * <span style="color: #008dff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;"> Church Music was most popular for their madrigals,balads,and sacred songs. Most of their compositions were written for five to six parts! **

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Resources:

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">“The Lizard”. 1-27-11. []

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">“Greensleeves”. April 1996. 2-16-11. []

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Wikipedia. “Now is the Month of Maying”. 20 December 2010 at 15:11. 1-27-11. []

<span style="color: #780ee1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">“Elizabethan Music”. 1-27-11,1-28-11. []