Music and Dancing

• How was music listened to?

  Upper class:

  • Paid for male musicians to play in their house

  Lower class:

  • Experienced music at fairs, markets and public celebration days
  • In local taverns and churches
• How was singing done?

  Upper class:

  • Could employ somebody to sing

  Lower class:

  • Purchased books of popular songs so they could perform them
  • The illiterate would sing their own songs to popular melodies
• How was dancing done?

  • Upper classes would dance in private balls
  • Lower classes would dance publicly at fairs
  • Men and women in the same social class would dance together