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The earliest documented example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne’s The Princelye Pleasures (1576). [1] Only from the mid-17th century has there been a clear distinction made between a ‘whole’, or ‘closed’ consort, that is, all instruments of the same family (for example, a set of viols played together) and a ‘mixed’, or ‘broken’ consort ...
In English early Baroque music, a broken consort is an ensemble featuring instruments from more than one family, for example a group featuring both string and wind instruments. A consort consisting entirely of instruments of the same family, on the other hand, was referred to as a "whole consort ", though this expression is not found until well ...
Consort Airport, Consort, Alberta, Canada; CONSORT Colleges, a consortium of college libraries in the U.S. state of Ohio; HMS Consort (R76), a C-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy; The Consort, novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan 1912; The Consort, musical journal of the Dolmetsch Foundation; The female partner in tantric yab-yum
Consort Song may refer to: Consort song, English song form of the late 16th and early 17th centuries; People. Empress Jingyin (died 82), concubine of Emperor Zhang ...
Starting in 1999, the Freiburg new-music organization ensemble recherche began commissioning an ongoing series of short In Nomine compositions for the festival Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. The series is dedicated to Harry Vogt , director of the festival since 1989, and is collectively titled the Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book. [3]
A royal consort is the spouse of a serving monarch, whose main duty is to provide support and companionship during their reign. Unlike the king or queen, they do not have a formal position or set ...
Because of the limited range, music for crumhorns is usually played by a group of instruments of different sizes and hence at different pitches. Such a group is known as a consort of crumhorns. Crumhorns are built in imitation of the vocal quartet with soprano, alto, tenor and bass as a family, as was true of most instruments of the Renaissance.
Ready for her crown. Duchess Camilla was officially named Queen Consort following the death of Queen Elizabeth II — and Us Weekly is breaking down what the new title means. Prince Charles and ...