The Second Booke of Songs
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The sixteenth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In today’s episode we discuss song no V. from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600). Mourne, mourne, day is with darknesse fled It is a song wherein day is made night, baleful vapours enwreath the earth, and all is become other than it
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The fifteenth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In today’s episode we discuss three songs from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs (1600):Time’s Eldest Sonne, Then Sit Thee Downe and When Others Sings This work forms a triptych, and we shall seek to determine the narrative that underpins its three constituent songs. Time’s Eldest
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In this episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen we will discuss the story behind a song from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs (1600) O sweet woods, the delight of solitarinesse, in which the Earl of Essex is in his ‘Wanstead Mood’. O sweet woods, the delight of solitarinesse from:The Second Booke of Songs
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The eleventh episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about a paratext that can be found in John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600), and about the power of musical magic. What does magic have to do with the modern world? The song that follows is written to
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The ninth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about the song pair from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) “[…] Tomorrow the Earl’s household being 160 [[at] court] are dispersed, and every man to seek a new fortune. Some few are retained to attend him, where
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The eigth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about the song no. XX from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) JOHN DOWLANDTosse Not My Soule The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600 The Schoole of NightMaria Skiba – sopranoFrank Pschichholz-lute Recording: Julita Emanuiłow Polskie Radio
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The sixth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode, we will discuss all of John Dowland’s songbooks, their interrelationships and contexts. JOHN DOWLANDComplete Lute Songs The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597 The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600 The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Airs, 1603 A
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The fourth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you we discuss the story behind White as Lillies Was Hir Face and Wofull Hart from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) White as Lillies Was Hir Face / Wofull Hart ©The Schoole of Night 2025
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The second episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you can hear the story behind Come Yee Heavie States of Night from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) and its connections to the Second Earl of Essex and to the story of Hamlet. Come Yee Heavie States of Night ©The
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Frank Pschichholz working on his dissertation. On June 20 he had his doctoral examination. It is done. The Second Booke of Songs and the Earl of Essex.
The Schoole of Night 