John Dowland (1563-1626) was an important instrumental composer at a time when the most serious music was vocal, and he was a popular composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and ...

Has there ever been a more melancholy - one might even say downright miserable - songwriter than John Dowland? Morrissey doesn't come close. In songs such as In Darknesse Let Me Dwell, Flow My Tears ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed ...

John Dowland, the Elizabethan composer, songwriter and lutenist, has been enjoying a quiet, belated renaissance. He dubbed himself “Semper Dowland, semper Dolens” – always Dowland, always doleful – ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Dowland, who died 400 years ago, spun out sad songs that were popular in his time and continue to influence artists today. John Dowland, a famous composer and lutenist of the ...

John Dowland’s 1604 Lachrimae is described on its title page as “Seven Tears figured in seven passionate pavans, with diverse other pavans, galliards and almans, set forth for lute, viols, or violins, ...

Tenor John Potter, late of the Hilliard Ensemble, formed the Dowland Project in 2003 ostensibly to record the music of Medieval English composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Dowland has several modern ...

Dowland was an important and beloved composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and classical music. He was, in effect, an... John Dowland's Art Of Melancholy John Dowland's Art Of ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...