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Popular early modern instrumental music from London's taverns, streets, theatres, coffee houses and music rooms. Musical life in England probably reached its zenith during Elizabethan and early Jacobean times; a remarkable number of excellent composers wrote music of every description for dancing, singing, the home, the court, the theatre and the church - and they wrote for every kind of musical ensemble. Rough Musick is a survey of real low-life, underground, foot-stomping folky ballad tunes, divisions and country dances from Elizabethan times to the Restoration, with a host of unusual instruments.