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The earliest documented example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne’s
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In modern times, a number of ensembles have adopted the term "consort" in their names:
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540–1690
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16/17th-century English phrase for a musical ensemble
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Major forms of music composed for consorts included
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Consort (music)

England
instrumental ensemble
Elizabethan era
Baroque
chamber music
viols
‘broken’ consort
lute
fantasias
cantus firmus
In nomines
variations
ayres
Elizabethan era
John Dowland
Anthony Holborne
Osbert Parsley
William Byrd
Jacobean era
Thomas Lupo
Orlando Gibbons
John Coprario
Alfonso Ferrabosco
William Lawes
Caroline era
John Jenkins
Christopher Simpson
Matthew Locke

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