Lecture Recital
'The Elizabethan Lute: A talk illustrated on a lute of 1584 and with original manuscripts and song-books of John Dowland'
Venue:
Robert Spencer - lute
Programme
Part 1 - John Dowland 1563-1626
His Lute Music
The Earl of Essex Galliard
Melancholy Galliard
Almain: My Lady Hunsdon's Puff
tablature: Richard Mynsall's lutebook, 1597-9
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
A Professional Lutenist
1580 servant to the English ambassador in Paris - a lutenist's indenture
1594-5 Germany and Italy - his letter to Sir Robert Cecil
1598-1606 lutenist to the King of Denmark - Henry Peacham's poem, 1612
1612 lutenist to James I - payment of a royal lutenist's expenses
1620s teaches lute to Margaret Board - Prelude & Lachrimae Pavan
His Ayres
1597 First Book - Away with these self-loving lads
1600 Second Book - Sorrow, stay
INTERVAL
(Interval refreshments will be served in the Laigh Room)
Part 2 - Dowland's Contemporaries
Thomas Campion 1567-1620
Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? - Campion on song-writing
It fell on a summer's day
Anthony Holborne d. 1602
Pavan & Almain (The Night watch)
Thomas Morley 1557-1602
Come, sorrow, come
Thomas Robinson fl. 1589-1609
The Queen's Gigue: Go from my window: A Toy
Shakespeare Songs
Take, O take those lips away - John Wilson
O mistress mine - Thomas Morley
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No programme notes.
Biography of Robert Spencer.
Promoter:
Three forthcoming concerts listed at the end of the printed programme