Dowland - Flow my tears
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- Created on: 06-04-13 19:54
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- Dowland - Flow my tears
- Background
- Lute song or Arye
- Based on pre-existing work (Tearful Pavan)
- Published 1600
- Intended for performance at court
- Marked by melancholy atmosphere
- Rhythm and metre
- 4/4 characteristic - slow pavan tempo
- Use of syncopation...
- ...dotted rhythm...
- ...ornamental, shorter not lengths near cadence
- Melody and Word-setting
- opening stepwise descending line matches description of falling tears
- Syllabic underlay
- Verbal and musical accentuation not always synchronised
- Line broken by rests to convey tears and sighs at b.12
- First syllable "Happy" given the highest note in the melody
- Overall range a 9th (D-E)
- Opening 4 notes inverted to start third section b.17
- Diminshed 4th - (G sharp-C) at b.22
- Harmony
- Not consistently functional - frequent cadences, both perfect and Phyrgian
- Other devices include...
- Suspension
- False relation
- Tierce de Picardie
- Tonality
- A minor with Aeolian inflections
- Second section starts in C, but finishes with a Phrygian cadence in A minor
- Structure
- Pavan structure...
- ...three parts, each section repeated - AA BB CC
- Resources and Textures
- Voice, lute and an anthology recording a bass viol
- Melody and accompaniment hovers between homophony and free counterpoint
- Some dialogue or antiphony, for example b.12
- Brief imitation
- Background
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