John Dowland
John Dowland was a Compositeur and Luthiste born in England or Ireland in 1563 and dead the February 20th 1626.
Biography
Very few elements on the first part of its life are available, but it would have been born with London or possibly with Dublin. Remaining with Paris with the service of the ambassador attached to the French court, it converts with the Roman Catholicisme. According to its dires, that contributed to draw aside it from a post office at the Protestant court of Elisabeth I {{Re}} of England, and led it to work at the court of Christian IV of Denmark. Turning over to England in 1606 then in 1612, it ensured one of the stations of lutist near Jacques I {{er}} of England and curiously, there is no more no composition since this date until its death in London in 1626.
Work
Most of its music is intended for its instrument, the Luth. Its work thus includes/understands several parts for lute alone, of the lutes songs (songs for a voice and lute), songs with several vocal parts and lute, and several works for Consort (together instrumental) of viols and lute. One of its most known parts is the lutes song Flow My Tears .He wrote his the most known instrumental work thereafter, Lachrimae gold Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans ( Pleurs or Seven tears represented by seven impassioned Pavane S ), a group of seven pavanes for five viols and lute, each one being based on Flow My Tears . This part became one of most known of the music for instrumental whole of this time. Its pavane Lachrymae antiquae was also one of great successes of the seventeenth century.
The music of Dowland often expresses the melancholy, a feeling very present in the music of this time. Besides he wrote a part for unit whose title could according to some summarize its work, entitled Semper Dowland, semper dolens (always Dowland, always suffering). It would be however to forget other more humorous parts, like My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard a invention for two lutists playing on only one lute.
The music of Dowland is a recurrent theme of the books of Science-fiction of Philip K. Dick.
The singer Sting took again the compositions of Dowland in his album Songs from the Labyrinth (2006).
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