# Help with reference material

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 9, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214 "2009-06-09T15:59:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![TNWPsycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214/1 "2009-06-09T15:59:35Z")

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I’m in my storyboarding class working on the latest project. My story takes place at a masquerade ball in the 17th century.

Where i am having problems finding reference material is song selection. What sort of music was common at a masquarade ball? I don’t necessarily need an mp3 of it, just an idea of what might have been played.

thanks!

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**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214/2 "2009-06-09T16:07:42Z")

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Something like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Elizabethan_Era)?

OK, so maybe a century or so off, but my google search on “Jacobean music” leads to pages titled “Elizabethan and Jacobean music,” so I would suppose the two age’s musics are not that different.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214/3 "2009-06-09T16:14:09Z")

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Google: 17th century chamber music.

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**Author:** ![TNWPsycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reference-material/499214/4 "2009-06-09T16:35:06Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Google: 17th century chamber music.

Perfect! Thank you!