The painting is probably best known to lutenists now as the illustration used on the paperback edition of the Dowland lute music. |
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One of the most famous composers and lutenists of his day, Dowland also represented the Elizabethan artistic temperament. |
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In the late 1950s Pears popularized early English songs by John Dowland and others, accompanied by famous guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream. |
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One hears the fullest statement of the Dowland song, with its original harmonies, at the end. |
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It will feature a true English consort of flute, violin, viols, cittern, lute, bandore and voices performing music by William Byrd, Thomas Morley, John Dowland and others. |
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This book surveys a period of forty years or so which embraces a concentration of talent unprecedented except by Campion, Dowland and Co three hundred years earlier. |
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Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, and John Dowland were other leading English composers. |
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