Music,+Dance,+and+Plays

Entertainment Types of Entertainment · Music Folk songs during this period helped make work easier and made time go by faster, many sang religious songs to emphasize religious beliefs, lullabies were used to calm children, and musicians performed at fairs and banquets. o Types of music § Mass à was a form of sacred musical composition, which is something that is performed for religious purposes. § Choral Music à is formed by a choir or a musical ensemble, the music written was written only for ensembles. § Madrigale Spirituale à is a secular form of music meaning away from religion and a vocal music composition. Click here to listen to some of the music played during renaissance [] The nobility danced differently than the ordinary and the poor, the nobility danced in couples and the rest enjoyed dancing to folk music and danced in square dances and jigs. o Types of dance § Branle à is a dance danced in a group in the form of a circle or chain, also dancers move in simple steps to the right or left. The dancers hold hands and move together sideways. § Galliard à is a dance with complex variations of quick steps and tall jumps; this danced can be danced in couples or in singles. § Pavan à is a dance that has two simple steps and one double step forward, and then two simples and one double backward
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// Caption: this shows how the nobility danced in couples. // Many plays during this time period were written by William Shakespeare, who is arguably the best playwright in history, also during this time period Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson were successful playwrights. o Different plays § Hamletà written by William Shakespeare and tells the tragic story of how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. click here to see a clip o Hamlet [] § A Midsummer Nights Dream à is also written by William Shakespeare this play shows his humorous side by telling the story of four people who come across unexpected love in the woods.
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