The seven tears of john dowland – lachrimae antiquae

Authors

  • Juliana Vasques Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v14i1.115255

Keywords:

John Dowland, Seven Tears, Elizabethan Age, melancholy, Lachrimae

Abstract

In the 16th century, during the Elizabethan age, Melancholy had been manifested as a ‘disease’. At the end of this century, in most English musical pieces, vocal as well as instrumental, there contained melancholic figures. John Dowland is the probably considered as most representative of Elizabethan melancholy in his music. He uses several musical symbols to represent it in his works. Among his pieces, the most representative for melancholy is found in the Seven Tears or Lachrimae, a cycle of seven pavans. The object of this article is to present the first of these pavans, Lachrimae Antiquae, through rhetoric analysis, defining the musical melancholy in the Elizabethan Age and pointing elements which will be consequently used in all of the Seven Tears of John Dowland.

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Published

2014-05-10

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How to Cite

Vasques, J. (2014). The seven tears of john dowland – lachrimae antiquae. Revista Música, 14(1), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v14i1.115255