Another factor would be the master/apprentice relationship which was common for any trade at the time. You get one good teacher in an area and he attracts students who carry on his work. Even as late as the 19th century the model still held. Beethoven was a student of Haydn's for a while.
Here's another little tidbit...a little of what passed for risque in the early 17th century, c 1610, Thomas Campion.
For those who can't follow the singer with her early 17th century English pronunciation, here is the text.
Here's another little tidbit...a little of what passed for risque in the early 17th century, c 1610, Thomas Campion.
For those who can't follow the singer with her early 17th century English pronunciation, here is the text.
Quote:A Booke of Ayres.
VIII.
It fell on a sommers day,
While sweete Bessie sleeping laie
In her bowre, on her bed,
Light with curtaines shadowed,
Iamy came: shee him spies,
Opning halfe her heauie eyes.
Iamy stole in through the dore,
She lay slumbring as before;
Softly to her he drew neere,
She heard him, yet would not heare,
Bessie vow'd not to speake,
He resolu'd that dumpe to breake.
First a soft kisse he doth take,
She lay still, and would not wake;
Then his hands learn'd to woo,
She dreamp't not what he would doo,
But still slept, while he smild
To see loue by sleepe beguild.
Iamy then began to play,
Bessie as one buried lay,
Gladly still through this sleight
Deceiu'd in her owne deceit,
And since this traunce begoon,
She sleepes eu'rie afternoone.
