On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:06 PM, bill kilpatrick wrote: > just out of curiosity, does any negative, contemporary > criticism exist for the way dowland performed? did > anyone record the comments of others or personally put > pen to paper, accusing him of arrogance or being a > poseur - piqued commentary borne of envy, perhaps?
You would have to find evidence that Dowland was perceived as a threat, just as Sting is on this list. Were there musicians around in Dowland's time narrow-minded enough to fear that their medieval/ renaissance world-picture would collapse like a house of cards if anyone came along with a different take on the music? I'm sure there were! Those were changing times for musicians, especially short- sighted ones. The thing about Dowland, though, was that he was basically old-fashioned and somewhat backward-looking, and therefore not a threat. DR To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
