>> just out of curiosity, does any negative, contemporary >> criticism exist for the way dowland performed? did >> anyone record the comments of others or personally put >> pen to paper, accusing him of arrogance or being a >> poseur - piqued commentary borne of envy, perhaps? > > You would have to find evidence that Dowland was perceived as a > threat, just as Sting is on this list. Were there musicians around > in Dowland's time narrow-minded enough to fear that their medieval/ > renaissance world-picture would collapse like a house of cards if > anyone came along with a different take on the music? I'm sure there > were! Those were changing times for musicians, especially short- > sighted ones. The thing about Dowland, though, was that he was > basically old-fashioned and somewhat backward-looking, and therefore > not a threat. > > DR Yes, but there is always threat in originality, especially the morose kind. RT
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