Music During The Elizabethan Era

Although Elizabeth I was an effective ruler, there were still faults in her reign. She was careless with the economy which endangered the stability of her country. This was reckless and extremely risky, even though she eventually gained control of the situation at the end. Had she not, the country of England could have been in turmoil and would have gone under. But, despite this fault, she was an effective ruler as she saved England from defeat by the Spanish Armada, started the Elizabethan Era, a great definition of English culture, and set a fantastic precedent for female rulers in a time when they were not celebrated. Elizabeth I could have done certain things differently than she had, but overall, she wanted what was best for her country

The Elizabethan people thought of music as being powerful and wonderful (“William”), and according to Linda Alchin’s website, music was important in Elizabethan life. To the Elizabethan people, music was a form of entertainment (“Music”). Everyone loved music, and to them, music allowed creative expression (Mahabal). Types of Elizabethan music included court, church, town, street, theater, consort, and house music.

The Globe Theater was a very well-known and entertaining theater where many famous plays were shown which were written by many famous writers including Shakespeare.

A variety of jobs existed during the Elizabethan era. There were some people who worked for the queen, others who worked with their hands, and lastly people who worked for royalty. These jobs that people did were really important out of the elizabethan era.

The people in the Elizabethan Era had a very unique style of clothing. The Elizabethan Era had laws about what the commons and nobility had to wear. The commons had very strict rules about what they had to wear, and the upper class had a lot of privilege.

Can you imagine living in a world with no drive through and microwaved Ramen noodles? Well that is the kind of world that William Shakespeare lived in. During the Elizabethan Era new foods from the New World were being discovered, like tomatoes and potatoes. Food in the Renaissance Period was much different than it is today.

In the Elizabethan Era, there were a lot of weapons and wars. Weapons were to protect people and to fight in wars. If we never had weapons in this period of time, there wouldn’t be as many idea we could have came up with to make other weapons.

The Elizabethan era is considered as the Golden age in English history. It is called Elizabethan era because of Queen Elizabeth I and her reign. The era is most famous for theatre, because of plays that broke free of England’s past style of theatre that was composed by William Shakespeare and many others. There are a lot of similarities and differences between this era and the modern era.

The phrase, don’t judge a book by its cover, is commonly used in modern society when discussing the treatment of others. Yet in Elizabethan England, this phrase did not apply among the people. In fact, the population was encouraged to criticize others based on their appearance and the clothing they wore. Citizens of all genders were evaluated based on the complexity and material of their clothes, as well as the colors. The government also supported class clothing distinction by creating laws. Fashion within the Elizabethan era varied among the social classes, within each gender, and were influenced by government laws.

Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms were two great composers during very different times of musical periods. Although Johannes Brahms was born 5 years after Ludwig van Beethoven passed away, many have considered Brahms as Beethoven’s musical heir. Ludwig van Beethoven lived and wrote compositions during the classical musical time while Johannes Brahms wrote during the romantic musical time, although there is this time gap between the two Brahms is considered to be one of the more classical of the romantic composers. The two musical artists created many compositions over the years of their career. Both had rough times in their lifetimes and instead of letting these problems bringing them down they continued to write compositions and create amazing works. Their works changed through their careers and they used many different techniques to keep their compositions up to their standards and interests. Beethoven and Brahms influenced many composers years after their deaths and their works continue to be studied to this day.

Shakespeare back in the 1400s was pretty well known at the time, he is more well known in this date in time. He is part of our history, the reason why we now today have wonderful Shakespeare plays, sonnets, and poems. Shakespeare in his time was very different from our time today. Back then royals would probably only shower 3-4 times a year, now we practically do it every day. Pour people on the other hand practically didn 't even shower once a year. To show how wealthy you were you would at more fabric to your clothing to make it look like you made/had enough money to eat. It was fashionable back then to look fat, now it is quite the opposite. Now talking about Shakespeare 's plays they are quite different than now-a-days. Back then acting was only done by men, because women didn 't have any rights, now we as women do. In Shakespeare 's plays they didn 't have a lot of scenery and would describe the setting in the way they talked, now we show it on movie screens, we see it done all the time. They didn 't have lighting or sound so they needed to project their voices, sometimes we do have to project our voices but most the time we have sound and lighting. In Shakespeare 's plays there weren 't any intermissions or bathroom breaks like we do now. The props were probably seen more than scenery would be, but I don 't think they had a lot of it. It takes us in this day months to

Richard Ramirez once stated, “Violent delights tend to have violent endings.” Sports were very different at this time, a lot of violence was shown between different games, such as animal blood sports which were very serious. Athletic competitions have been around since the beginning of time. Popular sports in the Elizabethan Era were the animal blood sports which involved bears, bulls, cocks and dogs. People during the Elizabethan era may have liked the blood sports, but they always had violent endings.

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Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous composer of the eighteenth-century classical music and the nineteenth-century romanticism style of music. Beethoven is still remembered for his spectacular pieces in modern times. Beethoven’s music led others to take the art of music as a serious topic. His symphonies and sonatas were revolutionary to the music world, because of this, many people today are not aware of his deafness. His deafness eventually caused him to make sacrifices in his music career.

He later died on December 17, 1811. He was buried in the Moravian Church Graveyard.