Dowland? Which song? Together with Marlow, Donne and Dowland shared the same female patron, Lucy, Countess of Bedford. I suppose a concert programme of the three has been done many times?
Rob 2008/6/16 howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rob MacKillop wrote: > > > What lute and voice settings are there of poems by John Donne (a > > long-time > > favourite poet of mine)? I'm also interested in settings for viols > > and voice > > or voices. > > Ferrabosco set "The Expiration" as "So, so, leave off this last > lamenting kisse" (the seventh song in his book). > > I just did a web search and found this irritatingly tantalizing > feature about Donne's poetry in songs: > > http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/was- > john-donne-the-cole-porter-of-his-time-491049.html > > It will tell you: > > > By searching music manuscripts in the British Library and the > > Bodleian in Oxford, Holmes found 10 settings of Donne's verse made > > by some of the leading English composers of his day, including John > > Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Alfonso Ferrabosco and William Corkine. > > > > But gets no more specific than that. > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
