Intro -- Cambridge Music Handbooks -- Contents -- Note to the reader -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 The document -- English music publishing -- Dowland's continental career -- The publication of Lachrimae -- The table layout -- 2 The instruments -- Lachrimae and the Anglo-German repertory -- Instrumentation -- Chiavette and transposition -- The lute part -- 3 The dance types -- The pavan -- The galliard -- The almand -- Composition, arrangement and performance -- The Elizabethan dance repertory -- The late Elizabethan pavan -- Tonality -- 4 The seven 'Passionate Pavans' -- 'Lachrimae Antiquae' -- The tear motif -- Musical rhetoric -- The nature of the cycle -- Melancholy -- 'Lachrimae Antiquae Novae' -- 'Lachrimae Gementes' -- 'Lachrimae Tristes' -- 'Lachrimae Coactae' -- 'Lachrimae Amantis' -- 'Lachrimae Verae' -- 5 'Divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands' -- The ordering of the collection -- 'Semper Dowland semper Dolens' -- 'Sir Henry Umptons Funerall' -- 'M. John Langtons Pavan' -- 'The Earle of Essex Galiard' -- 'Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard' -- 'M. Henry Noel his Galiard' -- 'Sir John Souch his Galiard' -- 'M. Giles Hobies his Galiard' -- 'M. Buctons Galiard' -- 'The King of Denmarks Galiard' -- 'M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with 2 Trebles' -- 'M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard' -- 'Mistresse Nichols Almand' -- 'M. George Whitehead his Almand' -- 6 Reception -- Revival -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

The guide investigates Dowland's famous Lachrimae (1604), the earliest collection of instrumental music generally known to non-specialists.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.