Dowland in a sentence

Abraham 1968, p.207 Suspicions of treason Dowland performed a number of espionage assignments for Sir Robert Cecil in France and Denmark; despite his high rate of pay, Dowland seems to have been only a court musician.

Grayden Dowland, 10, was walking back from basketball training to his family home in Riverton, Utah, at around 6.20pm when he spotted a light-colored sedan lurking nearby.

Veronica Milroy brightened things up with Dowland’s “Awake Sweet Love”, beautifully sung with sweetness, tenderness and passion.

There was a luxuriantly sad, resigned song from Brahms about the desire for oblivion, and John Dowland’s beautiful song Time Stands Still.

A guitar recital may include a variety of works, e.g. works written originally for the lute or vihuela by composers such as John Dowland (b.

Also, some protagonists in Dick's short fiction are named Dowland.

Dick also based the title of the novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said on one of Dowland's best-known compositions.

Dowland also sets the opening verses of Essex's poem "The Passion of a Discontented Mind" ("From silent night") in his 1612 collection of songs.

Dowland's music often displays the melancholia that was so fashionable in music at that time.

Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.

Dowland was dismissed in 1606 and returned to England; in early 1612 he secured a post as one of James I 's lutenists.

In 1584, Dowland moved back to England where he was married.

In popular culture *The science fiction author Philip K. Dick was a fan of Dowland's compositions and his lute music is a recurring theme in Dick's novels.

Nigel North recorded Dowland's complete works for solo lute on four CDs between 2004 and 2007, on Naxos records.

Peter Holman (with Paul O'Dette), "John Dowland", Grove Music Online.

Quotations from the piece begin every major section of the novel, and Dowland's work is referenced in several of Dick's works.

Scores The Collected Lute Music of John Dowland with lute tablature and keyboard notation has been transcribed and edited by Diana Poulton and Basil Lam, Faber Music Limited, London 1974.

See Diana Poulton, John Dowland, University of California Press (1982), pp. 21ff. for a full discussion of this claim.

Smith 2002, p.276 Though Dowland was highly regarded by King Christian, he was not the ideal servant, often overstaying his leave when he went to England on publishing business or for other reasons.

Some years later, in 1953, Grainger wrote a work titled Bell Piece (Ramble on John Dowland's 'Now, O now I needs must part'), which was a version scored for voice and wind band, based on his previously mentioned transcription.