On Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006, at 06:53 America/Los_Angeles, Ed Durbrow wrote:
>> Um, given how depressing so much of Dowland is (or as Ellen Hargis >> put it, all melancholy, all the time), wouldn't that be >> counterproductive? :) > > That's what I thought, but he gave me some examples of the songs he > was playing and why it made her feel better. I've forgotten what they > were though. Dowland wrote plenty of songs that are happy, or funny, or up-tempo, or all of those things. Just in the Third Book, a quick look yields: Time stands still Behold a wonder here Daphne was not so chaste When Phoebus first didi Daphne love Say love if ever thou didst find What if I never speed Fie on this feigning It was a time when silly bees could speake And, of course, Dowland's contemporaries would be quick to pick up the sexual double meanings in all the "death" references in other songs, though these are probably a bad choice for a modern hospital room. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
