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	John Dowland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Dowland (pronounced to rhyme with "Roland") (1563 – February 20, 1626) was an English, possibly Irish-born composer and lutenist.
		Dowland's music often displays the melancholia that was so fashionable in music at that time.
		Dowland's song, Come Heavy Sleepe, the Image of True Death, was the inspiration for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar, written in 1964 for the guitarist Julian Bream.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dowland (401 words)

	HOASM: John Dowland
		We know nothing of John Dowland's early life beyond the statements, made in his publications, that he was born in 1563 and studied the 'ingenuous profession of Musicke' from childhood.
		Dowland dedicated Lachrimae to the queen, Anne of Denmark, stating that the collection was begun in her native land and finished in England; to some extent it represents the practice and repertory of expatriate Englishmen at the Danish court, including the composers William Brade and Daniel Norcombe.
		Dowland's obsessive melancholy thus appears from the outset and is never far away in any of the song books.
	www.hoasm.org /IVM/Dowland.html (1907 words)

	Dowland, John (1563 - 1626) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dowland, of English or possibly Irish origin, was born in 1563, probably in London.
		Dowland was the composer, in particular, of one of the best known songs of the period, Flow my teares, music much imitated, epitomising the fashionable humour of the day, melancholy.
		Dowland himself provided an apt pun on his own name - Dowland, semper dolens (Dowland, always grieving) - although he had a reputation as a cheerful man, yet professionally embittered by his long failure to find employment at court.
	www.naxos.com /composer/dowland.htm (279 words)

	cdDiscovery - John Dowland - Selected Lute Music - Jakob Lindberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dowland's song My heart and tongue were twinnes was performed and he also took part in a dialogue in which he had a chance to make a plea before the Queen.) It must have been dreadful for him when he was informed that his application had been rejected.
		John Dowland set off for England soon after receiving this letter and it is easy to imagine his high expectations of finally being given the opportunity to enter the service he so much desired.
		John Dowland returned to London and moved in to his house in Fetter Lane, where his family had been living for much of the time he spent abroad.
	www.cddiscovery.com /classic/dowland-lutemusic.html (2047 words)

	cdDiscovery - John Dowland - Lachrimae or Seven Tears - The Dowland Consort / Jakob Lindberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dowland, according to his own statement was born in 1563, probably in the City of London.
		That Dowland considered 'Lachrimæ' to be his greatest composition is demonstrated when he signed his name as 'Jo: dolandi de Lachrimæ his own hande' to the little 'fuga' that he wrote in the Album Amicorum of Johannes Cellarius.
		He seems to have treated Dowland kindly when he fell so deeply into debt and it was while he was absent from Elsinore that Dowland was dismissed.
	www.cddiscovery.com /classic/dowland-lachrimae.html (1628 words)

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		Dowland played before Elizabeth in 1592, but he was not favored with a royal appointment during Elizabeth's reign.
		Dowland's works are often introspective, melancholy, and discordant by the standards of the time.
		Dowland's most famous instrumental collection is (in modernized spelling) ``Lachrimae, or Seven Tears.'' It begins with a series of seven ``passionate pavans'' based on a four-note theme, and each pavan is an apt illustration of the word ``lachrymose.'' They are arranged for five viols and lute, quite a solemn sonority.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-4006.htm (1189 words)

	Lachrimae of John Dowland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This composition of the acclaimed English lutenist and songwriter John Dowland (1563-1626) was arguably the single most influential piece of Elizabethan music.
		Although Dowland complained of the many "false and imperfect" versions of Lachrimae that were in circulation, he was justifiably proud of his "famous tune".
		There is some irony in this ascendancy of Dowland’s prestige in England as he had been frustrated in receiving court appointments, possibly owing to his Catholicism, and had been living abroad as lutenist to the court of the King of Denmark.
	members.iquest.net /~jfazli/dowland.htm (858 words)

	John Dowland - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dowland to thee is deare; whose heauenly tuch Vpon the Lute, doeth rauish humaine sense:...
		Dowland claimed not to understand the Mass, which, if he means the Latin language, was not true: in 1609 he published a translation of a Latin music theory book.
		Dowland was born into an improvising tradition, and it is likely that when he played he did not have a piece of music in front of him - most of the surviving manuscripts were written down by or for amateurs, not for professionals.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=dowland (2997 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dowland was a composer of church, instrumental and secular vocal music, in particular of one of the best known songs of the period, "Flow my Teares".
		Dowland was above all the composer of lute-songs, publishing his first collection of airs in 1597, followed by a second in 1600 and a third in 1603.
		The best known of Dowland's instrumental compositions is his famous Lachrymae or Seven Teares, for five viols and lute.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/dowland.html (279 words)

	John Harle - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Harle is one of the most exciting contemporary musicians in Britain.
		John Harle is the composer of over 25 concert works and 40 film and television scores.
		In 1989 John was appointed Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has been the mentor to a new generation of saxophonists.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/harle/bio.html (338 words)

	JOHN DOWLAND, Biography, Discography
		Born in 1563 John Dowland was almost exactly contemporary with Sweelinck and Shakespeare.
		As an adoloscent he was 'servant' to the ambassadors of England to the court of France, spending over four years in Paris between 1580 and 1586.
		During this stay - which must have greatly contributed to raising his social status and orienting his musical evolution - Dowland was converted to Catholicism under the influence of the English emigrants.
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/history/composers/10744.php (400 words)

	John Dowland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dowland (1563-1620) has been described the 'rarest Maestro that this age had beheld.' A celebrated performer as well as a composer.
		Dowland traveled extensively in Europe and served as Lutenist to Christian IV of Denmark at a time when (possibly by reason of his religious beliefs,) he was unable to obtain a post under Queen Elizabeth.
		Finally in 1612 he was appointed one of the King's Lutes at the court of James I. A belated recognition of a man who was by then considered the finest Lutenist in Europe.
	www.midisource.net /dowland.html (120 words)

	Prism Music: DOWLAND for guitar
		John Dowland's music has much of the timeless universality, and classical mastery of contemporary idiom, one finds just over a century later in the music of J.S. Bach.
		Dowland must have felt a loyal friendship to Piper, as he went ahead and published pieces inscribed to the convicted pirate while employed by King Christian of Denmark -- whose ships had been preyed upon by none other than Captain Piper.
		After Robert was executed, at the Queen's orders, for attempting an uprising against her, Dowland made his loyalty to his "right honorable" friend (and perhaps his bitterness towards to Queen) quite obvious to all through the publication of this galliard -- its unwieldy title likely to command attention.
	jeffrysteele.com /Scores/dowland.html (2365 words)

	Mixed Ensemble Sheet Music - John Dowland - 9 Pieces Volume 1: 4 Pieces (Mixed Ensemble - Mixed Ensemble)
		John Dowland was an excellent lute player in his time, and a gifted composer as well.
		John Dowland is a great composer to emulate; don't miss out on learning from such an accomplished musician.
		Tarleton's Jig - Composed by: John Dowland - ©2001
	www.encoremusic.com /1800054.html (367 words)

	Music - John Dowland
		Dowland was born in Ireland (Dowlan and Dolan).
		Dowland's fame as a Lutenist was great, and he received many offers of preferment
		Dowland also boasted that his works had been published at Paris, Antwerp, Cologne, Nuremberg, Frankfort, Leipzig, Amsterdam, and Hamburg.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/music-12.shtml (401 words)

	classical music - andante - john dowland - a dream - hopkinson smith
		The viols whose crossing voices and passing dissonances slide lachrymoneously by each other like eels in a bucket; his "dwell" set to languish in infinite stillness at the end of "In darkness let me."; his lighter pieces full of energy, subtlety, wit and charm.
		Giving this title to the program is meant as an invitation to penetrate the world of the inner senses that is the domain of the lute in general and has an added personal intensity in the music of Dowland.
		John Dowland, a dream: the King of Denmark's galliard: Hopkinson Smith, 2004
	www.andante.com /naive/catalog.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=823 (383 words)

	Anthony Joseph Lanman - SEVEN LAMENTATIONS ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DOWLAND (2003)
		The piece, modeled on John Dowland's seven "Lachrimae" pavans, is essentially a set of seven variations on a common theme.
		Unlike the Dowland, which is a set of musical variations, this concerto is more a set of variations on an emotional theme.
		Seven Lamentations on the Death of John Dowland (excerpts from movements I, IV & VII)
	www.thenewstyle.org /tns_catalogue.php?id=56 (141 words)

	John Dowland - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dowland (pronounced to rhyme with "Roland") (1563 – February 20, 1626) was an English, possibly Irish-born composer and lutenist.
		John Dowland's Lute Songs : Third and Fourth Books with Original Tablature
		Mel Bay Presents John Dowland The First Booke of Songes or Ayres
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /dowland.htm (378 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats: John Dowland
		Readers alleged that my own country's contribution to world cuisine was a pair of golden arches, and that at one time, when the United States was just a little colonial backwater populated by weird religious fanatics and bemused natives, English music led the rest of Europe.
		A number of pieces on the program are of disputed authorship, and even among those believed to be by Dowland there is some question, as with the plays of his contemporary William Shakespeare, as to who exactly wrote them down and how faithfully this was accomplished.
		Dowland, like Beethoven and Theodore Kaczynski, was something of a social misfit, and his music has a dark aspect, achieved in part with a chromaticism that anticipates the Baroque.
	archive.salon.com /music/sharps/1998/01/27sharps.html (459 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: D: Dowland, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dowland, John - Biography focusing on his abilities as lutenist and composer for that instrument notes also other works of sacred and secular nature.
		John Dowland - Detailed biography from CD liner notes focused on his works for lute and his struggles for patronage and acceptance.
		John Dowland - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of his vocal and lute works, and Naxos discography.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/D/Dowland,_John (367 words)

	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- John Dowland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He served as a court musician to Christian IV of Denmark from 1598 to 1606, when gambling debts forced him to return to England.
		Dowland's four collections of lute songs, published between 1597 and 1612, were hugely popular and spread his fame all over Europe.
		In 1612 Dowland was finally appointed Royal Musician by King James I and around 1622 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9931745&pt=John+Dowland (206 words)

	Popular Music : Lute Music Of John Dowland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dowland's lute works are among the most beautiful compositions of the Renaissance period.
		Because so many of his pieces are wistful and sad, he was known as 'the melancholy Dowland,' although McFarlane's selection offers a fair number of more cheerful pieces.
		Paul O'Dette's Dowland recordings for Harmonia Mundi are also very well played and include all of the composer's music on five discs.
	www.adognet.com /cgi-bin/amazon_products_feed.cgi?item_id=B000001Q8W&search_type=AsinSearch&locale=us (203 words)

	The King's Noyse / Recording review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dowland, interestingly, may have been in both camps.
		The King's Noyse have looted the Dowland books of sad song and doleful dance to serve 75 minutes and 24 pieces of affecting late Rennaissance entertainment/musicotherapy (your choice).
		By this prolificity, Dowland was either a sad fellow or had quite a market for aristocratic blues in his time.
	www.hollowear.com /reviews/kingsnoyse.html (348 words)

	From Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Storgårds is one of the most versatile and respected Finnish musicians of his generation.
		Ernest John but always referred to by his initials (though in Ireland everyone called him Jack) - was one of the most important British composers in the generation after Vaughan Williams.
		John Christopher Pepusch began life as Johann Christoph Pepusch, in Berlin, and was employed at the Prussian court between 1681 and 1697, at which point he moved to The Netherlands.
	www.from-sweden.com /people/index.php?categoryID=30&id=34 (4528 words)

	Some unobserved information about John Dowland, Thomas Campion and Philip Rosseter
		During my research on the history of the lute in Sweden I happened to stumble across some information about John Dowland, Thomas Campion, and Philip Rosseter, which seems to be unknown to modern biographers of these composers.
		The first was Dowland, whose entry was dated 9 May 1604, and consisted of a short piece of music for the lute, together with the autograph 'Jo.
		The Count's brother, Achatius, bought a collection of music by Dowland and others while on a visit to London and this collection was kept at the castle of Schlobitten, situated only 15 kilometres from Elbing.
	www.tabulatura.com /Elbing2.htm (1128 words)

	John Surman - musicolog.com
		Born in Devon in 1944, composer/multi-instrumentalist John Surman is one of the key figures in a generation of European musicians who have crucially expanded the international horizons of jazz in the 70s and 80s.
		In 1994, Surman was commissioned by the Bath Festival, BBC Radio 3, the Arts Council and South West Arts, to write new music for various groupings from solo to Brass Project, and including a Nordic Quartet with Karin Krog, Terje Rypdal and Vigliek Storaas, to celebrate his 50th birthday year.
		A further commission in 1996 from Salisbury Festival allowed John to return to a long-standing fascination with choral music, producing Proverbs and Songs, an extended work for solo saxophones, pipe organ (John Taylor) and the 80-strong Salisbury Festival Chorus, directed by Howard Moody, and premiered in Salisbury Cathedral.
	www.musicolog.com /surman.asp (1226 words)

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