Consort song
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title:
Consort song
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A consort song was a characteristic English song form of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for solo voice or voices accompanied by a group of instruments, most commonly viols. Although usually in five parts, some early examples of four-part songs exist. It is considered to be the chief representative of a native musical tradition which resisted the onslaught of the italianate madrigal and the English lute ayre, and survived those forms' brilliant but short-lived ascendancy. In contemporary
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English song form
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_song
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2023-12-15T08:27:22Z
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