John Dowland. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597)

Contents

A Historical-Analytical Study · Claudio Nuzzo

  1. Preface
  2. Part One — Historical and Methodological Introduction
    1. I. Historical Outline and Textual Problems
    2. II. Methodological Problems
    3. III. Glossary
  3. Part Two — Analysis of the «First Booke of Songes or Ayres»
  4. Conclusions
    1. I. The Poetic Text
    2. II. The Poetry-Music Relationship
  5. Bibliography
  6. Post Scriptum (2026) — Developments in Dowland Scholarship
    1. The book as macrotext: materiality and authorial voice
    2. Political cryptography: the lament as mask
    3. Spenserian intertextuality: the tongue as 'mint'
    4. The biography rewritten: the Danish years
    5. Melancholy: from topos to process
    6. Historical linguistics and Original Pronunciation
    7. Contemporary reception
    8. New bibliographical references
  7. Appendix I — Song texts and translations
  8. Appendix II — Musical examples