To learn his craft

A nice little bit of late evidence that musicians were paid by their patrons to travel to study music. Purser quotes the 1474 household accounts for James III of Scotland:

Item, gevin at the kingis command the third of September to John Broun, lutare, at his passage our sey [over sea] to lere [learn] his craft - five pounds

and shortly after

a barrell of salmond that was send to a lutare to Bruges, at the kingis command