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Untitled. This is an Early Music site featuring the English composers Robert Jones and Philip Rosseter, furthermore the works of these composers involve much more than music. Robert Jones set the poems to most of the great Elizabethan poets to music and Philip Rosseter was Thomas Campion's best friend and collaborator. Rosseter and Jones were involve in a theatrical adventure and their music was used for plays and masks.

Thus, this site must additionally be a Shakespearean Poetry and Drama site. This page was written & compiled by Patrick Connolly. All materials are copyright © Patrick Thomas Connolly 2000 to 2004. OK, you don't care, you are just interested in the Care Bears. Go to Patrick T. Under Construction. This is the 400 year anniversary of Robert Jones's 5th (& last) booke ["The muses gardin for delights or fifth booke of ayers, 1610], and this is one of the 21 songs of the book. Why should Robert Jones and Philip Rosseter be considered together? The Child Actors by H. This page has had. Renaissance Instruments.

Renaissance means rebirth or reinvention. Music of the Renaissance period was going through a rebirth as artists had more creative freedom than in earlier periods. The Renaissance was between the years 1400 to 1600 C.E., and the music of this time had a polyphonic style. Music was very much a sacred art form, but more composers started creating secular music for informal gatherings and dances. Organs, harps, and viols were the main Renaissance instruments used during church services and other sacred gatherings. Shawm The shawm is a woodwind reed instrument used primarily for social and secular music of the Renaissance era. The Renaissance Shawm is a site maintained by Iowa State University that educates about the use and make of the shawm. Bass Recorder Bass recorders are of the woodwind family and were created in one piece. Muzika! Glastonbury Pipe The Glastonbury pipe is another woodwind instrument that uses a reed for proper play.

Treble Viol Tabor Bass Viol Tenor and Bass Crumhorn. The Cantigas de Santa Maria. Scores, Sounds & Sources. The Robert ap Huw manuscript (B. M. Addl. MS 14905)