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John Dowland. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597): A Historical-Analytical Study
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1597 John Dowland published the First Booke of Songes or Ayres, a collection that helped transform the history of English song with lute. This volume offers a complete study of the book: it reconstructs the poetic and musical contexts of the ayre, examines the theory of Morley, Ornithoparcus, and Campion, and presents individual analyses of all twenty-one vocal pieces.
Originally written as a Musicology dissertation at the University of Pavia's Cremona school, the study has been fully revised for the four-hundredth anniversary of Dowland's death. A substantial 2026 Postscript places the original analyses in dialogue with recent work on book materiality, courtly networks, melancholy, voice, historical pronunciation, mode, and cadential expectation.
Written for musicologists, performers, students, and readers of Elizabethan culture, the book includes a glossary, cadential plans, complete song texts, and an updated scholarly bibliography. It is both a rigorous study and a tribute to the enduring vitality of Dowland's music.
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