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Re: desert island disk: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Can you please give me the name of the piece of John Dowland you're talking
about ?
thanks
nicos
>I suppose I am stretching the definition of looping to an extreme here,
>but the repetition of a musical figure or harmonic progression is a
>standard device in classical, if not orchestral music. Think of Bach's
>Chaconne in D minor, Pachelbel's Canon, Ravel's Bolero etc. There is a
>piece for solo lute by John Dowland (ca 1600) which consists of a repeated
>descending chromatic scale around which he weaves various harmonic and
>melodic threads. If only he'd had a JamMan....
>
>Peter Thompson