Two major influences on Dowland's music were the popular consort songs, and the dance music of the day.

Most of Dowland's music is for his own instrument, the lute.

Dowland's music often displays the melancholia that was so fashionable in music at that time.

Dowland's last, and in the opinion of most scholars, best work, A Pilgrimes Solace, was published in 1612, and seems to have been conceived more as a collection of contrapuntal music than as solo works.

The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time, such as John Dowland's piece ' Lachrimae '.

The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time, such as John Dowland's piece ' Lachrimae '.

In an extremely rare departure from its normally austere approach, Fanfare magazine described his recording of Dowland's A Musicall Banquet as ' perfect '.

Very little is known of John " the Bard " Dowland's early life, but it is generally thought he was born in London.

In 1594 a vacancy for a lutenist came up at the English court, but Dowland's application was unsuccessful-he claimed his religion led to his not being offered a post at Elizabeth I's Protestant court.

While the date of his death is not known, " Dowland's last payment from the court was on 20 January 1626, and he was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on 20 February 1626.

Dowland's song, " Come Heavy Sleepe, the Image of True Death ", was the inspiration for Benjamin Britten's " Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar ", written in 1964 for the guitarist Julian Bream.

In 1600, he was chosen to proofread John Dowland's Second Booke of Songs.

As a part of the promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60 during which he performed a segment of Dowland's " Come Again " as well as his own " Fields of Gold " in the arrangement for voice and two archlutes.

Quotations from the piece begin every major section of the novel, and Dowland's work is referenced in several of Dick's works.

The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's " heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense.

In 1951 Alfred Deller, the famous counter-tenor ( 1912-1979 ), recorded songs by Dowland, Thomas Campion, and Philip Rosseter with the label HMV ( His Master's Voice ) HMV C. 4178 and another HMV C. 4236 of Dowland's " Flow my Tears ".

Dowland's predecessors and colleagues, such as Anthony Holborne ( c. 1545 – 1602 ) and Daniel Bacheler ( 1572 – 1619 ), were less known.

Sweelinck wrote variations on John Dowland's internationally famous Lachrimae Pavane, and John Bull, the English keyboard composer, wrote a set of variations on a theme of Sweelinck, indicating the close connection between the different schools of composition across the North Sea.

He wrote variations on John Dowland's famous Lachrimae Pavane.

Both albums revisit the tango, Tin Pan Alley, and spoken-word influences of Swordfishtrombones, while the lyrics are both profoundly cynical and melancholic, exemplified by " Misery is the River of the World " and " Everything Goes to Hell.

While Joey Starr ( also known as Jaguar Gorgonne and Double-R ) has a relatively slow flow, aggressive lyrics and a deep, booming voice ( which he sometimes uses to yell such as in " Pose ton Gun "), Kool Shen has a funkier flow as well as witty and rather melancholic lyrics.

Hart's lyrics, facile, vernacular, dazzling, sometimes playful, sometimes melancholic, raised the standard for Broadway songwriting.

The northern variant of schlager ( notably in Finland ) has taken elements from Nordic and Slavic folk songs, with lyrics tending towards melancholic and elegiac themes.

Consisting of Elliott Smith ( guitar and vocals ), Neil Gust ( guitar and vocals ), Brandt Peterson ( bass ; later to be replaced by Sam Coomes, frontman of Quasi ), and Tony Lash ( drums ), they were known for their well-crafted lyrics and songs often featuring the juxtaposition of melancholic and cheery words and melodies.

Furthermore, focusing on the sophistication of the songs in comparison to earlier works, the lyrics avoided the stereotypical descriptions of the aggressive black man ; instead, the lyrics provided a sentimental, romantic, and even melancholic atmosphere.

Paolo Conte ( born January 6, 1937 ) is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions ( evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music, South American atmospheres, and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens ) and his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics.

The lyrics are often melancholic and related to the sea or travelling or absence, continuing a tradition of songs dating back to Medieval times ( with obvious connection to cantigas de amigo among others ).

The subject matter of Maxi's lyrics range from upbeat to melancholic.

His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic.

The songs are melancholic bordering on heart-rending ; the lyrics are either drenched in Byronic spleen, or full of BG-branded variant of Russian irony steeped in a sense of separation between self and the world.

The lyrics describe a solitary narrator watching ( or imagining ) two lovers passing over a bridge, with the melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the Thames, and Waterloo Station.

Their lyrics tend to be melancholic, but at the same time modernist.

The melancholic lyrics in the Tagalog original as recorded in Retana's book " El Indio Batangueño " reads:

The record led the band into MPB rhythms with more melancholic lyrics and melody.

Also, many fans have interpreted some of the melancholic lyrics ( many of which concern people in some form of emotional distress ) as referring to Kossoff.

The music video is a melancholic montage of the band's past, showing childhood photos of the band, while playing in a large warehouse room.

His next film, Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), produced by Alan Tang, a drama about aimless youth set in the early 1960s, established his trademark form: elliptically plotted mood pieces, with lush visuals and music, about the burden of memory on melancholic, misfit characters.

The folk music of Međimurje, a small but distinct region in northernmost Croatia, with its melancholic and soothing tunes became the most popular form of folk to be used in the modern ethno pop-rock songs.

In common with the music traditions of other Asian cultures, such as Persia and India, one strand of traditional Chinese music consists of a repertoire of traditional melodies with tempo and ornamentation varying according to the mood of the instrumentalist, the audience, and their reaction to what is being played, the same melody can be used to serve many different roles be it merry, melancholic or martial ( this can be glimpsed in the love theme of the Butterfly Lovers ' Violin Concerto where the same melody at different points in the lover's story reflects elation, turbulence and dejection ).

Vranje is famous for its popular, old music, lively and melancholic at the same time.

This shepherds ' music is " melancholic and contemplative " in tone.

Probably the most distinctive and identifiably " Bosnian " of music, Sevdalinka is a kind of emotional, melancholic folk song that often describes sad subjects such as love and loss, the death of a dear person or heartbreak.

Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously become less and less heavy after every release ; from straight forward death metal, to a gothic metal / doom metal / progressive metal sound, to a melancholic hard rock-sounding form of progressive rock and in 2006, went as far as to releasing an entirely acoustic album Acoustic Verses.

Lycia's music is characterized by rich soundscapes and layers of echoed guitars, dark and ethereal keyboards, doomy drum machine beats, VanPortfleet's melancholic, whispered vocals and Vanflower's vivid voice.

In many ways sunshine pop is similar to Baroque pop music, through the usage of intricate productions and classical elements, yet, differs from Baroque pop, which, unlike sunshine pop, is often dramatic and melancholic.

Dawson's music was featured in the movie Juno, in that her " sweetly melancholic acoustic-strummed tunes " helping define the character of a pregnant young teenager who decides to have her baby.

In 1991 after the break-up of the Soviet Union he released music under the name " the BG-Band ", " The Russian Album ", a collection of melancholic folk songs influenced by his travels all over Russia and demonstrating a return to his Russian roots.

Sputnik also operates an internet radio station, Sputnik. de, which has channels for World Music, melancholic music, R & B, dance, rock music, a stream broadcasting the alternative evening programme Popkult the whole day.

Since the project's beginnings, Anna-Varney's music has gained notoriety for being extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.

Tenhi is a Finnish band formed in 1996, playing melancholic, neofolk music.

Many of the bands also share a low-key melancholic tone, regardless if it is electronic dance music or conventional guitar based pop.

Their music can be described as melancholic.

The film opens with a series of still photographs appearing over melancholic music, representing the abstract memories of the unseen Herman Raucher, now a middle-aged man.

The style of music varies from rock ' n ' roll to haunting and melancholic, and was produced by Rick Cassman.