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Originally Posted by Paikon
Dowland wrote melancholic music. I like pieces like the frog Galliard, My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, Mrs Winters jump.
I have a cd with Julian Bream and a tenor Peter Peers (?) performing Elizabethan songs but really that was too melancholy for me.
Wiilim Shakespeare in a poem mentions Dowland saying that he ravishes the senses.
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Interestingly Dowland was a cheerful person (well according to wikipedia), some claim that the melancholy was an attempt to develop "artistic persona".