John Dowland Seven Songs and A Galliard Melanie Poser, Dance Stefan Olof Lundgren, Theorbo
Complete online in HD quality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfBPLXY9t8&feature=youtu.be The music is arrangements of John Dowlands songs as well as the famous Galliard "for two to play upon one lute". The arrangements you can find here: www.luteonline.se. The titles: Come Again My Lord Chamberline His Galliard 5.35 Flow my teares 7.53 Wilt thou unkind thus reave me 12.31 Fine knacks for ladies 17.10 I saw my lady weepe 20.08 Come heavy sleepe 23,43 In darknesse let me dwell 28.12 Hellish jarring sounds 32.48 Stefan about the music The arrangements have different degrees of complexity. "Come" and "Sleepe" shows two extrems: in "Come", the lutesong by Dowland can only be recognized for a short while in the opening and at the end of the piece. In between, it's more like a written down free improvisation. In "Sleepe", on the other hand, the lutesong is intabulated with almost no changes. Between these extremes you will find more or less farreaching variations over the original lutesongs by John Dowland. One can say that every new verse get a new accompaniment. For example: "Unkind" and "Ladies". In "Darkness" and "Hellish Jarring Sounds" both extrems mentioned earlier can be heard. In "Darkness", a strict intabulation of the whole song, of course including the idiomatic "theorbostyle". However, in "Hellish Jarring Sounds" the suggestive title inspired the re-composer to more or less "hellish jarring sounds" but still not leaving the original lyric and form. Melanie about the dances For these eight pieces there was no choerografy confirmed. It was the nature, trees, and the sea, and wind and once a seagull to provide the movemens of dance or sometimes only gestures. Come: A dance to show how beautiful the woods could be. The trees teach how to move, epecially a big root with its knobby arms and fingers. Galliard: Just listen to the sounds of the roots. Do they come from themselves or do they come from the lute. Or is the lute a transformation of the roots? Teares: The plants drink from the tears of the sky. Just relax and enjoy the precious raindrops. Unkind: Its a dialouge between movements and a seagull and the wind from the sea. Ladies: The finest knacks you ever can see are those that bejewel the flowers on a madow. Weepe: If you are sad and you are a weeping lady, just go into a summer forest, the swaying trees in the sun spend solace. Sleepe: Dead trees and scythed forest make sad. There is a griever between the dead woods. Darkness: A person in a coffin escapes from its grave. There are some invisible pursuer, but the person escapes through the hole of a hedge wich is the border into the land of the living. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
