The Classical Voice: 15 June - 4 July

[Nick Armstrong]

Classical Blows

[Richard Tarleton]

Classical Blows

And Classical Plucks (not quite sure why this 57-year old review is recycled here, but JB routinely describes himself as a plucker)

[Nick Armstrong]

And Classical Plucks (not quite sure why this 57-year old review is recycled here, but JB routinely describes himself as a plucker)

Maybe he was thinking with a roguish twinkle of this

I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
Because the pheasant plucker's late.

[french frank]

And Classical Plucks (not quite sure why this 57-year old review is recycled here, but JB routinely describes himself as a plucker)

Is Dowland properly pronounced Doh-land? I did not know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AJohn_Dowland#Pronunciation

[Sir Velo]

Is Dowland properly pronounced Doh-land? I did not know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3...#Pronunciation

You mean you didn't know how he preferred his name to be pronounced?

[french frank]

You mean you didn't know how he preferred his name to be pronounced?

No, it never cropped up in conversation.

It seems as if the Americans say Doh-land (as per the article), but I've never heard that over here. (Forvo has two Americans demontrating … )

[Richard Tarleton]

Is Dowland properly pronounced Doh-land? I did not know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3...#Pronunciation

Diana Poulton, the fount of all wisdom on Dowland, does not offer any guidance. Spelling seemed to vary at the time - John Scudamore the English priest in Florence who wrote a letter of introduction for Dowland to Rome in 1595, on the trip that caused Dowland so much bother at home, spelt it Mr Douland (our Countryman)....the Landgrave of Hesse, one of his employers, called him Johannes Dulandt, his name seems to have been rendered as Johannes Doulandus in Latin - so make of that what you will. Semper Doe-land Semper Dolens?? As a seasoned plucker meself I'm sticking to Dowland rhyming with Cow.