Editing Consort of instruments (section)

==Major composers==
Composers of consort music during the [[Elizabethan era]] include [[John Dowland]], [[Anthony Holborne]], [[Osbert Parsley]], and [[William Byrd]]. The principal [[Jacobean era]] composers included [[Thomas Lupo]], [[Orlando Gibbons]], [[John Coprario]], and [[Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger|Alfonso Ferrabosco]]. [[William Lawes]] was a principal composer during the [[Caroline era]].  Later 17th-century composers included [[John Jenkins (composer)|John Jenkins]], [[Christopher Simpson (musician)|Christopher Simpson]], [[Matthew Locke (composer)|Matthew Locke]] and [[Henry Purcell]].