Entertainment and Leisure - Music

MUSIC 

Medieval 

• gleemen (professional musicians) travelled around and performed for food and money
• most songs would've been religious and pure 
• singing - simple style of chanting
• folksongs - sung by people at work, mothers to their children and soldiers going into battle
• whistles, recorders, harps, drums, bells

Early Modern

• Great Halls - court minstrels would perform at banquets
• jesters and fools - entertainment for the royal court and king/queen
• Will Sommers (Henry VII's jester) - could…