> On May 25, 2019, at 12:39 PM, guy_and_liz Smith wrote:
>
> At a seminar I attended some years ago, Pat O'Brien made a plausible case
> that Can She Excuse (which is based on the Earl of Essex galliard) is a
> veiled reference to the relationship between Elizabeth and Robert, Earl of
> Essex.
The text of Can she excuse is "probably" by the Earl of Essex himself
according to some scholars. See:
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_She_Excuse_My_Wrongs - but there
is no conclusive evidence other than the dedication of the Galliard to
Essex over 10 years after the First book
At a seminar I attended some years ago, Pat O'Brien made a plausible case that
Can She Excuse (which is based on the Earl of Essex galliard) is a veiled
reference to the relationship between Elizabeth and Robert, Earl of Essex. They
were widely believed to be lovers early on, but it didn't last
I get your point Tristan. Ann Boleyn might have disagreed with you
though regarding the status of women in 16th century England. But I
guess you can add that to your list of evidence that Queen Liz was
really a guy :) And I found no evidence that Dowland's pining love songs
were even indirectly
On 25.05.19 20:00, Alain Veylit wrote:
Dude, you lived in a completely patriarchal society and you still
manage to blame her for torturing you! )
I knew it!!! Queen Elizabeth was a man!!!
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I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that the lay-out
of the First Booke of Songes is remarkably similar to, not to say
identical with that of a manuscript source: BL 31390. A facsimile of
that source is available at [1]https://www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1888/#/
It is w
It is enough to click the Send button on a question to the lute list
for Google to bring you (some of) the answer one second later... It was
indeed the first.
"While he was in London, Dowland published his first collection of
music, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Partes
That's the best book I know about the song books, unfortunately in German, but
you could try to borrow it somewhere, I'm sure he writes also about the authors
of the poems:
https://www.amazon.de/Text-Musik-John-Dowland-Vokalkompositionen/dp/3888492076/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=John+Dowland+kelnber
What is the current consensus on the authorship of the verses in
Dowland's 1st book of songes (1597)? Any attributions to some one other
than Dowland himself?
Also, I'll take any information about the actual printing job: is it the
first example of the layout with lute + cantus on one page and
