Waits Performers Early Music Styles
Waits Performers Early Music Styles
Waits
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 - Information on Waits or Waites, medieval, Tudor and Renaissance Town Bands of UK and Europe.
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- The Oxford Waits take their name from a real-life band of city musicians, known as 'waits,' who flourished in Oxford during the 17th century
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- Official town musicians (1530-1834), re-established in 1983
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- Five-piece shawm band specialising in loud ceremonial and dance music from the time of the Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stuarts
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- A 16th century, living history band playing Period European street music, popular dance, and ballad tunes, using a noyse of shawms, ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family, and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600.
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- Medieval, Tudor & Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites
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