 The historian Andrea Thomas makes a useful distinction between the loud music provided at ceremonies and processionals and instruments employed for more private occasions or worship; the "music fyne" described by Helena Mennie Shire.This quieter music included a consort of viols played by four Frenchmen led by Jacques Columbell.It seems certain that David Peebles wrote music for James V and probable that the Scottish composer Robert Carver was in royal employ, though evidence is lacking.