The golden age of Elizabethan music and culture

Course programme

Friday 22 April 2016

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 An introduction to the Elizabethan age and its culture
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion13

Saturday 23 April 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 The music of the streets; Music in the theatre
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Music at court; The secular traditions
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30'In quires and places where they sing' : Music in cathedral and chapel
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Lecture-Recital by Francis Knights and the Cambridge Renaissance. Ensemble in Madingley Church: Fantasias, anthems and consort songs
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 24 April 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Instrumental music: forms and styles
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Lecture-recital by Francis Knights (virginals): Elizabetha keyboard music
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch.