Editing Elizabethan era (section)

===Music===
{{Main|Music in the Elizabethan era}}
Travelling musicians were in great demand at Court, in churches, at country houses, and at local festivals. Important composers included [[William Byrd]] (1543–1623), [[John Dowland]] (1563–1626) [[Thomas Campion]] (1567–1620), and [[Robert Johnson (English composer)|Robert Johnson]] (c. 1583–c. 1634). The composers were commissioned by church and Court, and deployed two main styles, [[madrigal (music)|madrigal]] and [[Air (music)|ayre]].<ref>Comegys Boyd (1973) ''Elizabethan music and musical criticism'', Greenwood Press {{ISBN|0837168058}}</ref> The popular culture showed a strong interest in folk songs and ballads (folk songs that tell a story). It became the fashion in the late 19th century to collect and sing the old songs.<ref>Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge, eds. (1904) [https://books.google.com/books?id=YRNFAAAAYAAJ ''English and Scottish popular ballads: edited from the collection of Francis James Child'']</ref>