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The reign of King Henry and life in Tudor England explored through Tudor dance and movement. The unit includes authentic Tudor music, available to download from the links in the Teacher's...
- Tudor music
Music for Tudor dancing. Another example of Tudor dance...
- Tudor music
Music for Tudor dancing. Another example of Tudor dance music. 01:00. An example of Tudor court music... said to have been composed by Henry VIII himself. A musical tribute to Henry VIII...
A series of KS2 dance sessions for primary pupils aged 7 - 11 exploring the theme of Romans. Wonders of the world. Three dance sessions inspired by world famous landscapes and buildings. See...
- Composers of The Tudor Era
- Henry VIII and Music
- Elizabeth I
- Anne Boleyn
- Worship
- Dancing
- The Scottish Court
All of the Tudor and Stewart monarchs were musical, and took a personal interest in the professional performers at their courts. Some of these court musicians were also well known writers and performers. Henry VII's most important musician was Robert Fayrfax (c1460–1521), organist of St Alban’s Abbey and first doctor of music at Cambridge. Fayrfax ...
Of his musical family, Henry VIII was probably the most gifted. He played numerous instruments: the lute, the organ and other keyboards; recorders, the flute and the harp, and he had a good singing voice. Henry wrote a number of compositions, the most famous probably ‘Pastime with Good Company’, although, disappointingly, probably not ‘Greensleeves...
The virginals seem to have been the instrument of choice for Elizabeth I, who spent regular hours practising. One of Elizabeth’s instruments, dated from a tiny inscription to 1594, is now housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Elizabeth rather piqued herself on her skill, and, when informed by the Scottish ambassador, Sir James Melville,...
Elizabeth may have inherited her talent as much from her mother, Anne Boleyn, as from her father. According to Anne’s biographer Eric Ives, Henry VIII’s second wife may have been taught by Henri Bredemers, organist to the Archduchess Marguerite [or Margaret] of Austria. Bredemers was music tutor to the archduchess’s nephew, Charles V, and his siste...
Music was a vital component of worship before the Reformation. To have an accomplished chapel of singers was an important mark of status, and the finding of suitable men and boys was something that occupied the minds of the highest. There is correspondence relating to the friendly rivalry between Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII regarding the singers...
Both Mary I and Elizabeth I were fond of dancing. A rather priggish nine-year-old Edward VI sent a message to his stepmother, Katherine Parr, asking her to “beseech” his “dear sister, Mary…to attend no longer to foreign dances and merriments, which do not become a most Christian princess”. This reflected the rather more censorious view of music bei...
Music was just as important at the Scottish court as at the English. While there were bagpipes at the English court, there is no mention of them at James V’s court, but there were trumpeters, whistlers and drummers, clad in the red and yellow livery of the king. These ‘loud’ musicians were used in war and for ceremonial purposes, such as greeting J...
We promote the study, practice, education, and public engagement in the performance, music, and costume of European and other dances from the 15th to 20th centuries as recorded in the sources of the period.
Eastbury Manor House visitors watch NHD perform ‘Picking of Sticks’ in a May celebration of Tudor music, song and dances. Music from the Tudor period played on authentic instruments by Hexachordia accompanied the dancing in Eastbury Manor House, Barking.
Senior School Open Morning, Saturday 17th May, 2025. Tudor Hall is an independent girls' boarding & day school for 11-18 year olds in Oxfordshire.
