Music History Final Flashcards
Chapel Royal
The musical establishment attached to the royal chapel of the French kings
Kings Musick/Royal Musick
A post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. Directing the court orchestra and composing or commissioning music as required.
Private Musick
A royal institution which comprised small vocal and instrumental ensembles
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England. At the time The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book was put together most collections of keyboard music were compiled by performers and teachers
Virginal
A keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
Consort music
Indicates an instrumental ensemble. These could consist of the same or a variety of instruments
Masques
A form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy
Ben Jonson
An English playwright and poet. Regarded as “the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
Charles I
Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 2 1625 until his execution in 1649.
What was the Jacobean period
When Jacob I immediately succeeded Queen Elizabeth
Commonwealth or Interregnum: Oliver Cromwell
Commonwealth or Interregnum: Impact on music & the arts
Commonwealth or Interregnum: John Playford
(Stuart) Restoration: Charles II
(Stuart) Restoration: Impact on music & the arts
