Dowland's melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his attempts to develop an " artistic persona " though he was actually a cheerful person, but many of his own personal complaints, and the tone of bitterness in many of his comments, suggest that much of his music and his melancholy truly did come from his own personality and frustration.

At the time of its release Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel included the film in their " Worst of " list for 1994, singling out the melancholy tone of the film, and the quality of Seagal's dialogue.

They are somewhat melancholy in tone, but interspersed with bright and witty scenes.

Haynes also resists a Sirkian happy ending, allowing the film to finish on a melancholy note closer in tone to the " weepy " melodramas of 1940s and 1950s cinema such as Mildred Pierce.

Rather, most songs dealing with war are melancholy in tone.

Frame later blamed the overcast and grim weather conditions resulting from Prestatyn being situated on the Irish Sea for the album's melancholy and gloomy tone.

Charles ’ s diaries have entered the Second World War ; he is entering middle-age and the tone is melancholy.

The Pléiade poems of the natural world ( fields and streams ) were continued in the first half of the century — but the tone was often elegiac or melancholy ( an " ode to solitude "), and the natural world presented was sometimes the seacoast or some other rugged environment — by poets who have been tagged by later critics with the " baroque " label ( notably Théophile de Viau and Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant ).

Two of his poems are melancholy pleas to the king on the subject of his incarceration or exile, and this tone of sadness is also present in his ode " On Solitide " which mixes classical motifs with an elegy about the poet in the midst of a forest.

During his acceptance speech he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA's brand of pop music.

He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as " Come, heavy sleep " ( the basis for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal ), " Come again ", " Flow my tears ", " I saw my Lady weepe " and " In darkness let me dwell ", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has been a source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists during the twentieth century.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's sound combined the Velvet Underground's " melancholy noise " with Beach Boys pop melodies and Phil Spector's " Wall of Sound " production, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music.

New York Times music critic John Pareles says about Laws of Illusion-" It ’ s a kindly, enveloping sound that Ms. McLachlan has long used to conjure passion and empathy laced with melancholy.

Shooting and music were his only pleasures, and he was the generous patron of the famous singer Farinelli, whose voice soothed his melancholy.

German music: Following the 1968 student revolution in West Germany, singer-songwriters playing a kind of expressive, melancholy music with traditional influences became popular.

Marissen sees an incongruity between the official dedication to Frederick the Great and the effect of the music, which is often melancholy, even mournful.

He was already composing a large amount of music, such as melancholy romances which amused the rich amateurs.

Unlike much popular music, it moves through minor key progression creating an introspective if not melancholy mood and thus has lent itself to classical treatment as well as popular music.

The term was coined in Europe in the 1980s to describe a dark and melancholy variant of New Wave and post-punk music, such as gothic rock and dark synthpop, and was first applied to musicians such as Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Chameleons.

This music, ' clearly more inspired by the classical than the rock tradition, had a melancholy, visionary and sometimes nostalgic quality '.

In the case of a death, the hosts referred to this as a " melancholy Happy Trails " and the background music was silenced in respect of the deceased ).

Its folk music can be characterized by a melancholy sound, and Portuguese influences, as well as the predominance of the zambomba drum ( similar to Brazilian cuica ), which is played by pulling on a rope which is inside the drum.

The emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy, and his passion for his lover Antinous, all in a manner similar to Gustave Flaubert's " melancholy of the antique world.

The first few Erstwhile releases were something of a mixed set in terms of the music, ranging from the melancholy avant-blues of Loren Connors to the rather traditional free jazz of VHF.

Generally the music tends to evoke a feeling of solitude, melancholy, confinement, and isolation.

Their music is lush and melancholy, with poetic and sometimes surreal lyrics.

131's first movement, said that it " reveals the most melancholy sentiment expressed in music ".

He was convinced that his mother's nightmares there had influenced both him as a person and composer: " My music is terribly melancholy-wildly melancholy.

Alexander Dane is an accomplished British actor whose name — or stage name ?-- reflects his experience in Shakespearean theatre (" the melancholy Dane " is a well-known description of Hamlet ).

Use of the term hypochondriasis for a state of disease without real cause, reflects the ancient belief that the viscera of the hypochondria were the seat of melancholy and source of the vapors that caused such morbid feelings.

Her poems reflects her life experiences including her rebellious attitude and independence in a male-dominated society ( regarding herself as a woman writer ); sense of loneliness and exile from her Cuba ( regarding her love for Cuba ); and melancholy and depression ( regarding her heartbroken affairs ).

There is profound feeling in it, and everything reflects the melancholy soul of the poet.

It was at a melancholy point in my life and the song reflects the yearning that was going on inside of me.

" The work presents a fusion of several Hopper themes: the solitary figure, the melancholy of dusk, and the lonely road.

Mental disorder is also evoked through the themes of melancholy, possible incest, and vampirism.

It followed " themes of personal history and memory ( which ) through the lens of a more antagonistic and critical form of interpretation, aims to point towards an overtly positive viewpoint on contemporary art practice over any traditional melancholy fixation.

The gothabilly sound was defined in the mid 1980s embodied by a slower tempo and melancholy ambience with romantic, literary, occult and religious themes.

The novel explores themes of England's loss of spirituality after the war, and of happiness, melancholy, and nostalgia as Birkin recalls the summer uncovering the mural, when he healed from his wartime experiences and a broken marriage.

Doinas are lyrical in aspect and their common themes are melancholy, longing ( dor ), erotic feelings, love for nature, complaints about the bitterness of life or invocations to God to help ease pain, etc.

In the arts, a gloomy landscape or setting may be used to illustrate themes such as melancholy or poverty.

Common themes in Agalloch's imagery and subject matter are natural beauty, melancholy and allusions to ancestral Heathenry.

" Ode on Melancholy " contains references to classical themes, characters, and places such as Psyche, Lethe, and Prosperine in its description of melancholy, as allusions to Grecian art and literature were common among the “ five great odes ”.