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  • He called Dowland the first singer/songwriter we know of.

    Sting's 'Labyrinth': 16th Century Pop Music 2006

  • He called Dowland the first singer/songwriter we know of.

    Sting's 'Labyrinth': 16th Century Pop Music 2006

  • She obliged, then sang some Dowland, Mad Bess again, as the room basked in the marriage of voice and music.

    for da carey Marko Fong 2011

  • The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • Oh, I forgot to add, for those quieter, more contemplative moments that one might need, say, for one's first cup of coffee in the morning, I would recommend the lute music of John Dowland, the late 16th century "rocker" contemporary of Shakespeare.

    gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

    A letter from the editor on Sylvia Townsend Warner 2009

  • The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

    From the editor 2009

  • The qualities that make her such a distinctive performer - the bittersweet tang and tragic weight in the tone, the dark and forthright chest voice, the emotional candor in her phrasing - ensured that the Monteverdi and Handel (as well as a vividly inflected set of Dowland songs) were riveting experiences.

    English Concert at Library of Congress Anne Midgette 2010

  • The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

    Authors and others 2010

  • He's already released a disc of English love songs, by composers from Dowland and Purcell to Quilter and Britten, with pianist Stephen Barlow, and the two of them are working together again on a recording of the complete songs of George Butterworth.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

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