Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In "An Anatomy of Melancholy," his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed ...

Alongside its plays the candle-lit interior of the intimate Sam Wanamaker Playhouse also hosts musical performances. This first CD release from in-house Globe Music, recorded in the theatre’s fine ...

Fornlorn Hope Fancy Hille Perl, Viola da gamba John Dowland, Composer Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movements: Lachrimae Antiquae Hille Perl, Viola da gamba John Dowland, Composer (The) Second Booke of ...

Dowland was an important and beloved composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and classical music. He was, in effect, an... John Dowland's Art Of Melancholy John Dowland's Art Of ...

“Semper Dowland, semper dolens” was the motto of the composer John Dowland: “Always Dowland, always sorrowful.” The phrase was aptly quoted in the program note for Tuesday night’s Boston Early Music ...

Settings of Ballads and Other Popular Tunes, Movements: Lord Strangs March, P65 John Dowland, Composer Nigel North, Lute Almains, Movements: Mistris Whittes thinge ...

My coming month is devoted to lute song, one of the glories of the English renaissance—and, more particularly, to the work of John Dowland. This year marks the 400th anniversary of his death: born in ...

The Renaissance songwriter and lutenist John Dowland was possibly the first composer to make an art form out of misery. His oeuvre so exemplified the Elizabethan cult of melancholy that he adopted the ...

John Dowland, the Elizabethan composer, songwriter and lutenist, has been enjoying a quiet, belated renaissance. He dubbed himself “Semper Dowland, semper Dolens” – always Dowland, always doleful – ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...