Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed ...

Dowland was an important and beloved composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and classical music. He was, in effect, an... John Dowland's Art Of Melancholy John Dowland's Art Of ...

An upcoming Wicklow concert celebrating the 400 th anniversary of the greatest lutenist and composer John Dowland will take ...

Has there ever been a more melancholy - one might even say downright miserable - songwriter than John Dowland? Morrissey doesn't come close. In songs such as In Darknesse Let Me Dwell, Flow My Tears ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Dowland, who died 400 years ago, spun out sad songs that were popular in his time and continue to influence artists today. John Dowland, a famous composer and lutenist of the ...

My coming month is devoted to lute song, one of the glories of the English renaissance—and, more particularly, to the work of John Dowland. This year marks the 400th anniversary of his death: born in ...

The Renaissance songwriter and lutenist John Dowland was possibly the first composer to make an art form out of misery. His oeuvre so exemplified the Elizabethan cult of melancholy that he adopted the ...

John Dowland, the Elizabethan composer, songwriter and lutenist, has been enjoying a quiet, belated renaissance. He dubbed himself “Semper Dowland, semper Dolens” – always Dowland, always doleful – ...

Chicago’s most unlikely but welcome celebration of a composer occurred Friday night at Mandel Hall, when lute player Elizabeth Kenny joined the consort of viols Fretwork in observing the 450th ...

Alongside its plays the candle-lit interior of the intimate Sam Wanamaker Playhouse also hosts musical performances. This first CD release from in-house Globe Music, recorded in the theatre’s fine ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...