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What do we know about the history of live music performances for the lower and middle classes in Western Europe?
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For example could an ordinary Londoner in Shakespeare's time have not only seen Romeo & Juliet at the Globe Theatre as a groundling, and gone to a bear-baiting nearby, but also have gone to an equivalent music performance aimed at the masses, like a pub's live music night is today? Or were musical performances only available either as an accompaniment to a larger performance (e.g. a play or Morris dancing), or at churches, or self-provided e.g. "whistle while you work"?

Question prompted by a lunchtime conversation in which a musician claimed that secular music performances for the masses only started in the 19th century.

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