All Ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed
from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age by Mignarda
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All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed, John Dowland, (1563 - 1626)
We quote David Hill in his notes to John Dowland: Complete Ayres for Voice & Lute, published 2020 by Mignarda Editions.
"Diana Poulton noted that this is the first song in which Dowland uses chromaticism to express grief. She also observes how different it is, in its polyphony, from the preceding Sleep wayward thoughts. Perhaps this was Dowland’s musical homage to Marenzio – who was still alive at the time (d. 1599). The odd-seeming “rue” in stanza 2 is a transitive verb (sense v1 I 4in OED). The syntax is: subject my plaints, verb will rue,object none. Literally “My plaints will arouse compassion in nobody.” The singer implies that his unfortunate hearers ought to listen to him because, whatever their sorrows, they cannot be like unto his sorrows: his hearers will get relief from knowing that somebody else is worse off. His hearers will also have from him, as from the dying swan, that most valuable commodity, absolute truth. Thus Gibbons’ swan: “More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”"
We quote David Hill in his notes to John Dowland: Complete Ayres for Voice & Lute, published 2020 by Mignarda Editions.
"Diana Poulton noted that this is the first song in which Dowland uses chromaticism to express grief. She also observes how different it is, in its polyphony, from the preceding Sleep wayward thoughts. Perhaps this was Dowland’s musical homage to Marenzio – who was still alive at the time (d. 1599). The odd-seeming “rue” in stanza 2 is a transitive verb (sense v1 I 4in OED). The syntax is: subject my plaints, verb will rue,object none. Literally “My plaints will arouse compassion in nobody.” The singer implies that his unfortunate hearers ought to listen to him because, whatever their sorrows, they cannot be like unto his sorrows: his hearers will get relief from knowing that somebody else is worse off. His hearers will also have from him, as from the dying swan, that most valuable commodity, absolute truth. Thus Gibbons’ swan: “More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”"
lyrics
All ye whom love or fortune hath betraide.
Al ye whom love or fortune hath betraide,
All ye that dreame of blisse but live in greif,
Al ye whose hopes are evermore delaid,
All ye whose sighes or sicknes wants releif:
Lend eares and teares to me most haples man,
That sings my sorrewes like the dying Swanne.
Care that consumes the heart with inward paine,
Paine that presents sad care in outward vew,
Both tyrant like enforce me to complaine,
But still in vaine, for none my plaints will rue.
Teares, sighes, and ceaselesse cries alone I spend,
My woe wants comfort, and my sorrow end.
Al ye whom love or fortune hath betraide,
All ye that dreame of blisse but live in greif,
Al ye whose hopes are evermore delaid,
All ye whose sighes or sicknes wants releif:
Lend eares and teares to me most haples man,
That sings my sorrewes like the dying Swanne.
Care that consumes the heart with inward paine,
Paine that presents sad care in outward vew,
Both tyrant like enforce me to complaine,
But still in vaine, for none my plaints will rue.
Teares, sighes, and ceaselesse cries alone I spend,
My woe wants comfort, and my sorrow end.
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from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age,
released April 10, 2021
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
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Mignarda Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Mignarda specializes in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music & poetry. Noted for awakening modern audiences to an appreciation for historical music, their work encompasses concertizing, teaching & recording, with 17 critically-acclaimed CDs, a series of 16 music editions, scholarly articles, reviews and the internationally-popular blog, Unquiet Thoughts. ... more
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