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      • Peter Holman, Colchester Institute Centre for Music and Performance Arts
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      28 October 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511605666
      9780521581967
      9780521588294
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605666
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 120 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.15kg, 120 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Seventeenth-Century Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Seventeenth-Century Music, Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    ‘… a welcome and an absorbing book.’

    Source: The Musical Times

    ‘This concise book is an excellent musicological ‘read’ and can be warmly recommended to lovers of English music in general, and to Dowland enthusiasts in particular.’

    Source: The Lute

    ‘… not to be faulted in terms of the most modern scholarship … these 100 pages tell us just about all we need to know, clearly and simply.’

    Source: Music and Letters

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