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The Performance of Ensemble Music in Elizabethan England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1970

Warwick A. Edwards
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This well-known passage by Francis Bacon might be regarded as an appeal for common sense in the instrumentation of Elizabethan and Jacobean music. The principle of avoiding combinations which do not blend may still be applied today, but, as Bacon goes on to say, ‘for the Melioration of Musicke, there is yet much left (in this Point of Exquisite Consorts) to try and enquire’.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 97 , 1970 , pp. 113 - 123
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Copyright © 1971 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

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