...even those of high rank. Writing of Queen Elizabeth's table-music, an authority says : * " Elizabeth used to be regaled during dinner with twelve trumpets...side-drums, made the hall ring for half an hour together.'* It may be incidentally mentioned that the word "table-music" was also used in another sense in the...

...musicians that figured at court entertainments ments and plays, " Elizabeth was accustomed," we are told, "to be regaled during dinner with twelve trumpets...kettle-drums ; which together with fifes, cornets and side drums, made the hall ring for half an hour together." Nor was " the Queenes noise," as the quaint...

...— to pass from Chaucer's day to Shakespeare's — we are told that when she dined she was " regaled with twelve trumpets and two kettle-drums, which,...side-drums, made the hall ring for half an hour together." In modern times the composition of the band would be somewhat different, but now, as then, music in...

...this was soft music compared with that of his heroic daughter, Elizabeth, who, according to Hentzner, used to be regaled during dinner " with twelve trumpets...sidedrums, made the hall ring for half an hour together." The account of Pietro della Valle of the first opera or musical drama exhibited at Rome, is extremely...

...with that of his heroic daughter, Elizabeth, who, according to Hentzner, used to be regaled daring dinner " with twelve trumpets and two kettle-drums;...sidedrums, made the hall ring for half an hour together." The account of Pietro della Valle of the first opura or musical drama exhibited at Home, is extremely...

...music was, however, soft compared with that of his daughter Elizabeth, who used, according to Henxner, to be regaled during dinner with twelve trumpets,...together with fifes, cornets, and side-drums, made the ball ring for half an hour together. The lute, of which the shape and sound are now scarcely known,...

...banquet in Hentzer's Itinerarium, this same combination, a pair of kettledrums with twelve trumpets, 'which together with fifes, cornets and side-drums, made the hall ring for half an hour together'. To quote Professor Kirby:1 '. . . Royalty was evidently prepared to bear the infliction for the sake...

...she listened WEDNESDAY. PLEASANT PAGES. ENGLISH HISTORY. to "twelve trumpets and two kettle-drams, which, together with fifes, cornets, and sidedrums, made the hall ring for half an hour together." The old sports of hunting and hawking, with pageant and show, were the chief diversions of the higher...