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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

Centuries before emo had a name, Elizabethan lutenist and composer John Dowland was channeling his heartache and dark moods into songs of unnerving beauty and potency. With their lugubrious texts ...

May 17, 2014 • In Elizabethan England, it was hip to have the blues. Watch the British countertenor mine the art of John Dowland's melancholy songs. He's joined by Thomas Dunford, "the Eric Clapton of ...

John Dowland’s songs were massively popular in the Elizabethan era. They played into an idea of English melancholy that continues today, writes Andrea Valentino. Stumble into any grimy club, or any ...

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 ...

The 16th century composer is believed to have hailed from Dalkey and was an ‘intrinsic friend’ to Shakespeare One theory is that the popular 16th century songwriter John Dowland was born in Dalkey, Co ...

If you know John Dowland's wonderfully doleful Lachrimae, a masterpiece of early 17th-century English melancholia, you'll be surprised that John Holloway's new recording of its opening seven Pavans is ...

John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why ...

Most of Dowland’s music is for his own instrument, the lute. It includes several books of solo lute works, lute songs (for one voice and lute), part-songs with lute accompaniment, and several pieces ...