Dowland: Lachrimae (1604)
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- Author: Peter Holman, Colchester Institute Centre for Music and Performance Arts
- Date Published: October 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521581967
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Dowland's Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook, the first detailed study of the collection, investigates its publication history, its instrumentation, its place in the history of Renaissance dance music, and its reception history. Two extended chapters examine the twenty-one pieces in the collection in detail, discussing the complex internal relationships between the cycle of seven 'Lachrimae' pavans, the relationships between them and other pieces inside and outside the collection, and possible connections between the Latin titles of the seven pavans and Elizabethan conceptions of melancholy. The extraordinarily multi-faceted nature of the collection also leads the author to illuminate questions of patronage, the ordering and format of the collection, pitch and transposition, tonality and modality, and even numerology.
Read more- Lachrimae (1604) is the earliest collection of instrumental music generally known to non-specialists
- The is the first detailed study of a collection of Renaissance instrumental music
- The book is a fascinating exploration of many aspects of Renaissance music and intellectual life
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'… a welcome and an absorbing book.' The Musical Times
See more reviews'This concise book is an excellent musicological 'read' and can be warmly recommended to lovers of English music in general, and to Dowland enthusiasts in particular.' The Lute
'… not to be faulted in terms of the most modern scholarship … these 100 pages tell us just about all we need to know, clearly and simply.' Music and Letters
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- Date Published: October 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521581967
- length: 120 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- contains: 12 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The document
2. The instruments
3. The dance types
4. The seven 'passionate pavans'
5. 'Divers other pavans, galiards, and almands'
6. Reception.
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