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Dowland, Lachrimae (1604) / Peter Holman.
| Author/creator | Holman, Peter, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xvi, 100 pages : music ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge music handbooks Cambridge music handbooks. ^A275900 |
| Contents | The document. English music publishing ; Dowland's continental career ; The publication of Lachrimae ; The table layout -- The instruments. Lachrimae and the Anglo-German repertory ; Instrumentation ; Chiavette and transposition ; The lute part -- The dance types. The pavan ; The galliard ; The almand ; Composition, arrangement and performance ; The Elizabethan dance repertory ; The late Elizabethan pavan ; Tonality -- The seven 'Passionate pavans'. 'Lachrimae antiquae' ; The tear motif ; Musical rhetoric ; The nature of the cycle ; Melancholy ; 'Lachrimae antiquae novae' ; 'Lachrimae gementes' ; 'Lachrimae tristes' ; 'Lachrimae coactae' ; 'Lachrimae amantis' ; 'Lachrimae verae' -- 'Divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands'. The ordering of the collection ; 'Semper Dowland semper Dolens' ; 'Sir Henry Umptons funeral' ; 'M. John Langtons Pavan' ; 'The Earle of Essex Galiard' ; 'Captaine Digorie Piper his galiard' ; 'M Henry Noel his galiard' ; 'Sir John Souch his galiard' ; 'M. Giles Hobies his galiard' ; 'M. Buctons galiard' ; 'The king of Denmarks galiard' ; 'M. Thomas Collier his galiard with 2 trebles' ; 'M. Nicholas Gryffith his galiard' ; 'Mistresse Nichols almand' ; 'M. George Whitehead his almand' -- Reception. Revival. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-95) and index. |
| LCCN | 98054374 |
| ISBN | 0521581966 (hc.) |
| ISBN | 0521588294 (pbk.) |