Dowland

[ dou-luhnd ]

noun

1. John, 1563–1626, English lutenist and composer.

Dowland

/ ˈdaʊlənd /

noun

1. DowlandJohn?15631626MEnglishMUSIC: lutenistMUSIC: composer John. ?1563–1626, English lutenist and composer of songs and lute music

Example Sentences

Using Liszt as an extravagant model and further happily drawing from or transforming Ravel, Mussorgsky, Dowland and others, Adès revels in his own exceptional extravagance.

From Los Angeles Times

Purcell cleverly prefaces his Haydn, and Dowland his Schumann, and if his Brahms Fourth is misguided, his Beethoven Ninth is bracingly straightforward.

From New York Times

The rest is adaptation — an insistence on the elasticity of music, borne out with rich, organ-like sonorities in pieces like the Dowland or John Bennet’s “Weep, O Mine Eyes.”

From New York Times

“Flow My Tears,” it might be added, was based on yet another “Lachrimae,” one of Dowland’s best-known solo lute pieces, not part of this set.

From Los Angeles Times

In this sense, measuring time irreversibility might reflect how singular a particular composer’s style is—the difference, say, between the gaudy violinist Nicolo Paganini and the melancholy lutenist John Dowland.

From Scientific American