Arts and learning under Henry VII

Question 1

What changes were there in education?

Answer 1

.Song schools and reading schools - elementary education.
.1460-1509 - 53 new grammar schools.
.Majority access dependent on where you live.
.English, Latin and Humanism taught - Magdalen College School - Oxford.
.Oxford some new colleges but Cambridge several many - Margaret Beaufort - Christ’s and St John’s colleges.

Question 2

What changes were there in drama?

Answer 2

.Most popular art form.
.Church-ale festivals - 1490 - Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire.
.Toured and nobility sponsored.
.Mystery plays at Corpus Christi - York, Wakefield, Coventry, Lincoln.
.Moral improvement in messages.

Question 3

What changes were there in music?

Answer 3

.Saints’ days - bagpipe, wind groups, drinking songs, choral pieces in cathedrals.
.Renaissance - single line chants to polyphonic choral music - heard in Churches/Cathedrals.
.1505 - Eton Choir book - 93 separate musical compositions - Henry VII’S reign links patronage from Beaufort and King and Earl of Oxford links.
.Court or houses of wealthy people.
.Carols, secular songs, shaums, trumpets, sackbuts, lutes, stringed instruments, recorders.
.Fayrfax and Browne.

Question 4

What changes were there in art and architecture?

Answer 4

.Building/rebuilding parish Churches.
.Gothic perpendicular style - Bristol, East Anglia, Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
.Northwestern Europe gothic tradition but primitive visual style.
.Caxton - traditional medieval culture - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, saint’s lives, chivalric romances.
.1509 - Henry VII dies - Humanist influences from Italy.