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7 unusual facts about John Dowland


Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book

However composers of some of the other pieces can be identified from other sources, and include John Bull, John Dowland and Henry Lawes.

Crepuscule with the Dead Science

Two tracks, "Child/Actress" and a cover of John Dowland's "All Ye Whom Love of Fortune", were recorded during the Frost Giant sessions.

Melancholia

In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with John Dowland, whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens.

Miroslav Venhoda

These discs, mostly for the Supraphon label, included a great many world premiere recordings of composers such as Dufay, Ockeghem, Obrecht, and Jacobus Gallus, as well as of more frequently performed masters such as Palestrina, Lassus, Monteverdi, Dowland, Tallis, and Orlando Gibbons.

Table-book

English sources contain many lute pieces and works by John Dowland, including his Lachrimae.

The Journey and the Labyrinth

Sting and Karamzov also collaborated on the 2006 studio album Songs from the Labyrinth which featured similar material, mainly compositions by John Dowland.

Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still (Dowland song), an English lute song by John Dowland, from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603), no. 2


1563 in music

John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist (died 1626)

1604 in music

John DowlandLachrimae, or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate pavans, with divers other pavans, galliards and allemands, set forth for the lute, viols or violins, in five parts

Edin Karamazov

Recent collaborations with Sting (in the field of 16th century music) resulted in the album and film Songs from the Labyrinth, devoted to the lute-songs of John Dowland.

John Windet

In 1604, Windet printed John Dowland's influential Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, a collection of the composer's pavans and one of the most important musical works of the era.

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Sidney was a patron of musicians, as is proved by his being the dedicatee of Robert Jones’s First Booke of Songes and Ayres (1600) and A Musicall Banquet (1610) compiled by Robert Dowland, son of the composer John Dowland.


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