Dowland - Flow My Tears 2013
- Created by: Zee Hicks
- Created on: 19-04-13 12:17
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- Dowland - Flow My Tears
- Background
- Lute-Song or ayre
- Based on pre-existing work: Pavan Lachimae
- Published in 1600
- Probably intended for a performance at court
- Marked by a melancholy atmosphere, characteristic of the composer
- Rhythm and metre
- 4/4, characteristic of pavan
- Syncopation
- Dotted rhythms
- Ornamental, shorter note lengths near cadences
- Melody and Word-Setting
- Opening stepwise descending line matches the text describing falling tears
- Syllabic underlay, except for ornamental figuration in B7 and B23
- Verbal and musical accentuation not always synchronised
- Line broken by rests to convey "teares and sighes" at B12
- First syllable of "happie" given the highest note in the melody
- Overall range of a 9th, D-E
- Opening four notes inverted at start of third section B17
- Diminished 4th (G#-C) at B22
- Harmony
- Not consistently functional, but there are frequent cadences, both perfect and phrygian
- Suspensions 7>6 at B1-2, 4>3 at B7
- False relations B5
- Tierce de picarde B8, B24
- Tonality
- A minor with aeolian inflections
- Second section starts in C but finishes with a phrygian cadence in A minor
- Structure
- Tripartite - AABBCC, typical of pavan
- Resources/Texture
- Voice, lute, Bass Viol
- Melody and accompaniment which hovers between homophony and free counterpoint
- Dialogue B12
- Brief imitation B13-14
- Background
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