Guest lutenist David Walker will join soprano Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, DMA, in a faculty recital featuring the lute songs of John Dowland on Monday, Sept. 15. Hurst-Wajszczuk is associate professor ...
A "remarkable" collection of lute manuscripts dating back to the 16th Century has been put online by the University of Cambridge. The 650 pieces include handwritten scores by John Dowland, Francis ...
It was a great age. In 1604, while playgoers were in thrall to the first known performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, music lovers could revel in the first publication of Dowland’s highly original ...
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’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 ...