Hi all,
perhaps no one has not yet mentioned the interesting article by Anthony
Rooley: "New light on John Dowland's song of darkness" in Early Music
1983 11(1):6-22.
The beginning of the article can be seen in
http://em.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/11/1/6
And all of the the article is in
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3137501
It is quite clear that the "melancholy" in those days was quite formal
matter, strongly connedted to neo-Platonism etc. Not much to do with the
modern day "melancholy".
All the best,
Arto
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