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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:45 am
BTW, the CPDL is a fun little website to poke around on. Lots and lots and lots of period sheet music, all for free download, many with accompanying midi files so you can learn the tunes easily. http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_PageI get lots of material from there. ^_^ Berz.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:58 am
It's quite amusing that you say that, since Dowland was actually a Catholic. He converted to Catholicism after he lived in France in the 1580s. I've never heard any of his music as hymns, and to my knowledge, all his vocal music was for one voice and lute. I can see how his music would be too melancholy for some (my friends and I call him the original emo band), but he's pretty much the quintessential English Renaissance composer.
I really want to get my hands on a recording of Lachrimae now. It's a set of seven pavanes based on Flow My Teares, written for five viols and lute.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:35 am
Rajani Kali It's quite amusing that you say that, since Dowland was actually a Catholic. He converted to Catholicism after he lived in France in the 1580s. I've never heard any of his music as hymns, and to my knowledge, all his vocal music was for one voice and lute. I can see how his music would be too melancholy for some (my friends and I call him the original emo band), but he's pretty much the quintessential English Renaissance composer. I really want to get my hands on a recording of Lachrimae now. It's a set of seven pavanes based on Flow My Teares, written for five viols and lute. I guess Dowland had not really a choice. In earlier times you changed your confession with changing your place of domicile. Or your confession changed automatical, when the ruler changed his confession: "cuius regio eius religio". If you wanted you keep your confession, the only way was emmigration. Hmm... Do you kow, if Dowland maybe went to France because of that reason?
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:02 pm
He was born well into the reign of Elizabeth, so the country was securely Anglican by that time, and it sounds like when he went to France to work for the French ambassador, he converted. He then moved back to England, but couldn't get a court position, so he moved to Denmark, where he got a job composing for the king. Then, during the reign of James I, he moved back to England and performed as a court musician, but apparently stopped writing. There's some people that think he couldn't get a court position under Elizabeth because he was Catholic, but William Byrd was on Elizabeth's court and was also Catholic, so who knows. 'Tis a mystery!
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:23 am
Yes, but Byrds family were protestants. Maybe his background gave him the possibility to work for Elisabeth's court.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:28 am
The Dowland family was Protestant as well, as far as I can tell. He converted later in life.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:43 pm
So I finally brought up me wanting to learn the Viol da gamba to my cello professor the other day, and he told me to look up Marin Marais, a composer and viol player from the early Baroque period. They made a movie based on him and one of his teachers, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, back in 1991 called All the Mournings of the World (Tous Les Matins du Monde). The clips I've seen make me really want to see the movie, though the actor they have playing Sainte-Colombe can't play the viol to save his life and is faking it horribly. My fiancee said I can just close my eyes during the "scary bits" lol Has any one see the film? Or heard any of Marais' compositions?
Sadly, my professor has also informed me that he wouldn't be able to give me any help with the gamba *pout* I usually get at least an introduction on how to play it before I try learning it on my own.
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:23 pm
Oh no! Information just being outside your grasp!
That is one of the saddest things in the world. I wish you much luck on your musical ventures.
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