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//Answer prepared by Robert S.// There were many instruments that were either created or they were still popular from early times. From the website "Elizabethan Musical Instruments" by Linda Alchin she explains that the viol was the early violin. The early oboe called the hautboy which would provide a high pitch and supernatural effect says Linda Alchin. The combination of musical instruments like a modern orchestra was in an experimental stage. Like now they had different of instruments like the percussion which is various forms of bells and drums. Another group is the stringed instruments which you either pluck, strum, or you use a bow. The third group is wind musical instruments which you play through and an example is the bagpipes or the trumpet. The fourth group is the keyboard instruments like the organ, spinet, harpsichord and virginals. "Elizabethan composers for the voice made use of two distinct styles which were called the Madrigal and the Ayre." form website "Elizabethan Musical Instruments" by Linda Alchin. The most popular instrument played during the Elizabethan era was the lute says Linda Alchin. The lute looks like a guitar but has fourteen strings and the body of it is round. The lute was also much smaller than the guitar. During that era they created different instruments that they based off of the lute.
 * WHAT WERE POPULAR FORMS OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND?**

From the book Instruments in the History of Western Music by Karl Geiringer says that the spinet was a stringed keyboard instrument that survived from the Barogue era. The gong also known as a tam-tam bears a certain relationship to the bell says Karl Geiringer. “It is a bowl-shaped instrument of bronze with an upturned rim," says Karl Geiringer. You then hit the gong by using a drumstick to produce its sound says Karl.

John Dowland published the F irst Booke of Songes or Ayres with. The book encouraged others to create their own songs. "Lighter songs draw on the tradition of the ballad and the dance," “from English Song in the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods” by Terry Gary. The lute song was one of the main developments of indigenous English song. These are only some of the instruments from that time period. There are some many instruments created in that time period, most of which are new and better models of the instrument form early time periods like the violin and the viol.

Works Cited:

Alchin, Linda. "Elizabethan Musical Instruments." __Elizabethan England__ July 16, 2005 8 Mar 2009 http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-musical-instruments.htm Gary, Terry. "English Song in the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods." __Theater__ 2 February, 2009 8 Mar 2009 .

Geiringer, Karl. __Instruments in the History of Wester Music__. New York: Oxford University Press , 1978.

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