In einer eMail vom 25.09.2006 23:15:16 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On a different note, but related, the later Dowland songs are more like > continuo songs with a less polyphonic texture. He was inspired from the > Italian style of Caccini et al. In an attempt to add something constructive to the list :) If you look at a manuscript like Add. Ms. 24665 (vocal part + unfigured bass) you see some things which may show that an early 17th century musician had a slightly differant slant on things than we have. There are 74 songs. 5 from Dowland 8 from Campion 10 from Robert Jones 2 from John Bartlet plus a few others by Rosseter, Ford, Caccini etc and anon. >From what I see at a glance all the Dowland songs are from the first 2 books of songes so it seems what you say about continuo songs may not be true at least for a 17th century musician. Also the manuscript include Bachelor's song "To plead my faith" which has a wonderfully ornate part in the musical banquet and is in the manuscript with a simple non-figured bass, but a heavily ornamented vocal part. Also Dowland does not have as many songs as one would expect. I don't think this is due to the style of Dowlands songs. I think that other lute song composers were more popular than we think today. I think Robert Jones has a number of songs that should be more often performed. Even John Bartlet has 2 songs and I think they are the 2 best in his neglected book - When from my Love I lookt for Love and Unto a fly transform'd. If you look at Forbes collection published in Scotland in the late 17th century you see a simular pattern and songs from Jones and Bartlet figure heavily next to Dowland. I am not sure that the early baroque style was such a revolution as music history books tend to portray it. If you think about modern pop music history the big revolutionary steps are often something coming into the public eye that had been simmering away in the underground for some time. Contary to my "HIP Police" image I may have earned I see no reasom not to be free in adapting even Dowland lute song parts. I quite liked what Sting did at the start of Flow my tears if it didn't sound so muddled when the lute played more on the repeat of the first strain. best wishes Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
