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The "Lachrimae" tend to be much more abstract than later music (such as Bach and Chopin) and there is no "definitive" version of the piece. Dowland and his contemporaries supposedly played their own versions in a semi-improvised fashion, like jazz musicians today. Holman argues that the popularity of
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claims that the first pavan of "Lachrimae" (called "Lachrimae
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132:"Lachrimae" came from its rich melodic and motivic nature. Other English composers in the period generally gave only one or two ideas per strain and padded them out with dull, diffusive
92:(London, 1600). The song begins with a falling tear motif, starting on an A and descending to an E by step on the text "Flow, my tears". This may have been borrowed from an
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Old New Borrowed Blues (Variations on Flow my Tears)
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228:version called "Flow my Dreams, the Android Wept".
788:Scott, David; Greer, David (2001). "John Danyel".
691:; Greer, David; Dill, Charles (2001). "Air (i)".
82:and style are based on a dance, in this case the
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