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I Saw My Lady Weepe
"I Saw My Lady Weepe" is a lute song from the ''Second Booke of Songes or Ayres'' by Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland.〔Holman and O'Dette〕 It is the first song in the Second Booke and is dedicated to Anthony Holborne.〔Leech Wilkinson pg. 227〕 It is an example of Dowland's use of chromaticism.
==Composition==
While composing "I Saw My Lady Weepe" , Dowland was influenced by what has been referred to as the "Elizabethan Melancholy" or "Cult of Darkness." 〔Wells pg. 514, Leech-Wilkinson pg. 230〕 Flow my tears, the song that follows it, and other songs in the ''Second Booke'' also show this influence.〔Wells pg. 523〕
Robin Headlam Wells stated that Dowland's songs follow this convention about transmitting feelings. According to Wells, the subject of the song is the power of the lady's ''beauty''—or in other words the overriding power of female beauty, whether spiritual or physical. This idea of power coming from a woman's beauty is one that is quite common in the poetry of the Elizabethan era.〔Wells pg. 524〕
The poetry of "I Saw My Lady Weepe" breaks with some of the conventions of its day in its treatment of the lady's beauty and charms. Rather than grouping them together, Dowland presents a paradox in which the lady herself becomes more beautiful than her sorrow; at this time, it was the ''emotion'' itself that was generally considered to be the beauty or charm, rather than the human subject itself. Like most examples of this type, it ends with an ironic admission of the power of love has to conquer over reason. The composer can then take liberties regarding the theoretical nature of the music to which he sets the text. The joining of the text with the music enhances the sense of the melancholy that pervades the verse of the time and through this merger, the music of the epoch takes on this same sense.〔Wells pg. 524〕〔Wells pg. 526〕
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