Religion
Church was a major significance for music in the 16th century. The puritans wanted to do away with all church music but the will of the people to sing only made it more predominant. Many composers that wrote for the church also wrote for the royalty. The style of the church music was known as choral polyphony. Hundreds of hymns were written for the church. Many of those are still sung today. It is “doubtless (that) your worship requires music (Pg. 121 Life in Elizabethan Days I).” At the most elegant of weddings, usually those of the nobility, the processional included musicians who played lutes, flutes, and viols. It was very common of that time for commoners to have music played for them whenever they wanted too.
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“The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
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