Dowland, Lachrimae (1604) / Peter Holman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holman, Peter, 1946- author.

Series:

Cambridge music handbooks.

Cambridge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dowland, John, 1563?-1626. Lachrimae.

Dowland, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 100 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. The document

2. The instruments

3. The dance types

4. The seven 'Passionate Pavans'

5. 'Divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands'

6. Reception

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-95) and index.

ISBN:

9780511090745

0511090749

9781107113916

1107113911

9780511003783

0511003781

9781280418662

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9780511038723

0511038720

9780511171932

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9780511149535

0511149530

9780511309717

0511309716

9780511605666

0511605668

9780511053962

0511053967

OCLC:

437250295

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07589 hdl