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Music in the Elizabethan era

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Flow, my tears
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Orlando Gibbons Out of the deep (The Tudor Consort)
5:44CC BY 2.5by The Tudor ConsortWikimedia Commons
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About Music in the Elizabethan era

Music in the Elizabethan era is a music genre.

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During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), English art and high culture reached a pinnacle known as the height of the English Renaissance. Elizabethan music experienced a shift in popularity from sacred to secular music and the rise of instrumental music. Professional musicians were employed by the Church of England, the nobility, and the rising middle-class.

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Music in the Elizabethan era is a music genre.

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