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John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.
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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.
John Dowland was married and had children, as referenced in his letter to Sir Robert Cecil.
His son Robert Dowland was also a musician, working for some time in the service of the first Earl of Devonshire, and taking over his father's position of lutenist at court when John died.
Some years later, in 1953, Grainger wrote a work titled Bell Piece ( Ramble on John Dowland ’ s ‘ Now, O now I needs must part ’), which was a version scored for voice and wind band, based on his previously mentioned transcription.
A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the instrument, to allow stopping the highest-pitched courses up to a full octave higher than the open string, though these are regarded anachronistic by some ( although John Dowland and Thomas Robinson describe the practice of gluing wooden frets onto the soundboard ).
English written lute music only began around 1540, however, the country produced numerous lutenists, of which John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) is perhaps the most famous.
In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with John Dowland, whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens.
Music for consorts was very popular in England in Elizabethan times, with composers such as William Byrd and John Dowland, and, during the reign of King Charles I, John Jenkins and William Lawes.
In Elizabethan English, the word " gambo " ( for gamba ) appears in many permutations ; e. g., " viola de gambo ", " gambo violl ", " viol de gambo ", or " viole de gambo ", used by such notables as Tobias Hume, John Dowland, and William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
* February 20 – John Dowland, English composer and lutenist ( b. 1563 )
** John Dowland, English composer ( d. 1626 )
In 1604 Bodeck left for London and met John Dowland, Philip Rosseter, and Thomas Campion.
Important composers included William Byrd ( 1543 – 1623 ), John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) Thomas Campion ( 1567 – 1620 ), and Robert Johnson ( c. 1583 – c.
* English composer John Dowland published an instrumental arrangement of his song " Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak?
Anne particularly loved music and patronised the lutenist and composer John Dowland, previously employed at her brother's court in Denmark, as well as " more than a good many " French musicians.
The title is a reference to Flow My Tears, an ayre by the 16th century composer John Dowland, setting to music a poem by an anonymous author ( possibly Dowland himself ).
In October 2006, he released an album, to mixed reviews, entitled Songs from the Labyrinth featuring the music of John Dowland ( an Elizabethan-era composer ) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov.
He concentrated on popularizing and recording the music of English Baroque and Renaissance music by composers such as John Dowland and Purcell.
* John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ), lutenist and composer
By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including John Dowland, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.
Examples of the jigs may be seen in the manuscript collection of John Dowland ( now in the Cambridge University Library ).
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John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.
** John Coke, English politician ( b. 1563 )
* Sir John Coke of England ( 1563 – 1644 ), Member of Parliament and Secretary of State
* November 21 – John Bale, English churchman ( d. 1563 )
woodcut from John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ).
Sir John Hawkins visited the island three times, firstly in 1542 and then again in 1563 with a cargo of slaves bound for Hispaniola.
* John Coke ( 1563 – 1644 ), an English politician
John Badby's death, burned in a barrel ( from Foxe's Book of Martyrs | John Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ))
In 1563, John was seized and tried for high treason by Eric's order.
He was also, quite autonomously, the ruler of Finland, as Duke John from 1556 to 1563.
John Bale ( 21 November 1495 – November 1563 ) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory.
Her mother Eleanor was born in London around 1563, and was the daughter of John White, the governor of the ill-fated Roanoke Colony.
The Roysse Room was the site of Abingdon School ( then ' Roysse's School ') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an indenture by John Roysse, who had been born and educated in Abingdon before he moved to London.
The false miracle for example ( dramatised in 2. 1 ) is found only in Grafton, not in Hall or Holinshed ( although a similar scene is also outlined in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ), with which Shakespeare may have been familiar ).
Latimer preaching to a crowd, including Edward VI, in Westminster, from John Foxe's book ( 1563 )
Burning of Latimer and Ridley, from John Foxe's book ( 1563 )
Sir John Coke ( 5 March 1563 – 8 September 1644 ) was an English office holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.
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* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist
* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor
* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )
* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader
* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )
* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist
* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer
* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )
* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )
* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.
* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )
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