John Dowland
Elizabethan melancholy composer
John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer and lutenist, regarded as one of the greatest composers of lute music and songs.
Active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, he is best known for melancholic works like "Flow My Tears" and "Lachrimae." His songs for voice and lute influenced generations of English art song.
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- tearsViolent pulls apart
England · composer · courtly · strings · tablature · pavan · song · semper · doleful · plucked · consort · madrigal · flow · weep · Tudor · Shakespeare · longing · minor
- Lutenists
- Renaissance ComposersByrd, Monteverdi, Gibbons, Victoria, Praetorius
- Renaissance musicmadrigal, motet, polyphony, lute, consort
- Tudor Composers
- Tudor FiguresHenry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Edward VI