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John Dowland

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John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. [1]

78 relations: Academy of Ancient Music, Alfred Deller, Archlute, Art song, Ballad, Barry Guy, Ben Salfield, Benjamin Britten, Cambridge Digital Library, Can She Excuse My Wrongs, Catholic Church, Christ Church, Oxford, Christian IV of Denmark, Christopher Hogwood, Come Again (Dowland), Consort of instruments, David Munrow, Deutsche Grammophon, Diana Poulton, Early Music Consort, Early music revival, Edin Karamazov, Edward Stafford (diplomat), Elizabeth I of England, Elvis Costello, Flow, my tears, Focus (band), Frederick Keel, Fretwork (music group), Great Performances, Henry Cobham (diplomat), Hespèrion XXI, I Saw My Lady Weepe, In darkness let me dwell, James VI and I, Jan Akkerman, John Potter (musician), John Surman, Julian Bream, Klaus Nomi, Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Luca Marenzio, Lute, Lute song, Melancholia, My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard, My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, Nigel North, Nocturnal after John Dowland, Pavane, ..., Percy Grainger, Peter Pears, Philip K. Dick, Philip Rosseter, Protestantism, Renaissance music, Richard Barnfield, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Robert Dowland, Robert Toft, Shakespeare's sonnets, Simple Man (Klaus Nomi album), Songs from the Labyrinth, St Ann Blackfriars, Stephen Stubbs, Sting (musician), The Consort of Musicke, The Juliet Letters, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Second Book of Songs, The Times, Thomas Campion, Thomas Fuller, Treason, Viol, W. H. Grattan Flood, William Byrd, William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire. Expand index (28 more) »

Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England.

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Alfred Deller

Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century.

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Archlute

The archlute (Spanish archilaúd, Italian arciliuto, German Erzlaute, Russian Архилютня) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo.

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Art song

An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Barry Guy

Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947, in London) is a British composer and double bass player.

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Ben Salfield

Benjamin Dieter Salfield (born 1971) is an English lutenist, composer, teacher and promoter.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Cambridge Digital Library

The Cambridge Digital Library is a project operated by the Cambridge University Library designed to make items from the unique and distinctive collections of Cambridge University Library available online.

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Can She Excuse My Wrongs

Can She Excuse My Wrongs is a late 16th-century song by the English Renaissance composer John Dowland, the fifth song in his First Booke of Songes or Ayres (Peter Short, London 1597).

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Christian IV of Denmark

Christian IV (Christian den Fjerde; 12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648), sometimes colloquially referred to as Christian Firtal in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway, was king of Denmark-Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648.

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Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist.

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Come Again (Dowland)

"Come Again, sweet love doth now invite" is a song by John Dowland.

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Consort of instruments

A consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble.

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David Munrow

David John Munrow (12 August 194215 May 1976) was a British musician and early music historian.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Diana Poulton

Diana Poulton (18 April 1903 – 15 December 1995) was an English lutenist and musicologist.

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Early Music Consort

The Early Music Consort of London was a British music ensemble in the late 1960s and 1970s which specialised in historically informed performance of Medieval and Renaissance music.

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Early music revival

The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when Europeans began looking to ancient culture generally, and musicians began to discover the musical riches from earlier centuries.

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Edin Karamazov

Edin Karamazov (Zenica, 1965) is a Bosnian musician, lutenist and guitarist, resident in Zagreb.

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Edward Stafford (diplomat)

Sir Edward Stafford (1552 – 5 February 1605) was an English Member of Parliament, courtier and diplomat to France during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. He was involved in abortive negotiations for a proposed marriage between Elizabeth and Francis, Duke of Anjou.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Flow, my tears

"Flow, my tears" is a lute song (specifically, an "ayre") by the accomplished lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563–1626).

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Focus (band)

Focus are a Dutch rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer.

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Frederick Keel

James Frederick Keel (8 May 18719 August 1954) was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic.

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Fretwork (music group)

Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom.

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Great Performances

Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television since 1972.

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Henry Cobham (diplomat)

Sir Henry Cobham (1537–1592) was an English diplomat.

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Hespèrion XXI

Hespèrion XXI is an international early music ensemble.

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I Saw My Lady Weepe

"I Saw My Lady Weepe" is a lute song from The Second Book of Songs by Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland.

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In darkness let me dwell

In darkness let me dwell is an anonymous poem included in the 1606 song collection "Funeral Teares" by John Coprario.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jan Akkerman

Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist.

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John Potter (musician)

John Potter is an English tenor and academic.

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John Surman

John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music.

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Julian Bream

Julian Alexander Bream, CBE (born 15 July 1933), is an English virtuoso classical guitarist and lutenist.

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Klaus Nomi

Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.

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Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Lachrimæ or seaven teares figured in seaven passionate pavans, with divers other pavans, galliards and allemands, set forth for the lute, viols, or violons, in five parts is a collection of instrumental music composed by John Dowland.

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Luca Marenzio

Luca Marenzio (also Marentio; October 18, 1553 or 1554 – August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Lute song

The lute song was a generic form of music in the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras, generally consisting of a singer accompanying himself on a lute, though lute songs may often have been performed by a singer and a separate lutenist.

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Melancholia

Melancholia (from µέλαινα χολή),Burton, Bk.

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My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard

My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard (an invention for two to play upon one lute) is a piece by John Dowland for the lute.

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My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

"My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home" is a traditional English ballad of the sixteenth century.

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Nigel North

Nigel North (born 5 June 1954) is an English lutenist, musicologist, and pedagogue.

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Nocturnal after John Dowland

Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 is a classical guitar piece composed in 1963 by English composer Benjamin Britten for guitarist Julian Bream.

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Pavane

The pavane, pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn (It. pavana, padovana; Ger. Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).

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Percy Grainger

George Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction.

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Philip Rosseter

Philip Rosseter (1568 – 5 May 1623) was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era.

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Richard Barnfield

Richard Barnfield (1574 – 1620) was an English poet.

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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, (1 June 1563? – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his skillful direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603).

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Robert Dowland

Robert Dowland (ca. 15911641) was an English lutenist and composer.

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Robert Toft

Robert Toft is a Canadian music researcher and vocal coach best known for his books on the history of singing and for his work with singers interested in historically informed approaches to performing vocal music written between 1500 and 1830.

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Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes.

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Simple Man (Klaus Nomi album)

Simple Man is the second album by German countertenor Klaus Nomi, released in 1982.

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Songs from the Labyrinth

Songs from the Labyrinth is the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Sting.

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St Ann Blackfriars

St Ann Blackfriars was a church in the City of London, in what is now Ireland Yard in the ward of Farringdon Within.

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Stephen Stubbs

Stephen Stubbs (born 1951) is a lutenist and music director and has been a leading figure in the American early music scene for nearly thirty years.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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The Consort of Musicke

The Consort of Musicke is a British early music group, founded in 1969 by lutenist Anthony Rooley, the ensemble's Artistic Director.

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The Juliet Letters

The Juliet Letters is the 14th studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released on compact disc as Warner Brothers 45180.

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The Passionate Pilgrim

The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are considered authentically Shakespearean.

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The Second Book of Songs

The Second Book of Songs (alternative title: The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4 and 5 parts: with Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba) is a book of songs composed by Renaissance composer John Dowland and published in London in 1600.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (sometimes Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician.

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Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian.

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Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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W. H. Grattan Flood

William Henry Grattan Flood (baptised 1 November 1857 – 6 August 1928) was a noted Irish author, composer, musicologist, and historian.

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William Byrd

William Byrd (birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623), was an English composer of the Renaissance.

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William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire

William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire MP (27 December 1552 – 3 March 1626) was an English nobleman, politician, and courtier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dowland

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