Ayre | Spanish, Renaissance, Polyphonic | Britannica

Ayre | Spanish, Renaissance, Polyphonic | Britannica

Ayre, genre of solo song with lute accompaniment that flourished in England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The outstanding composers in the genre were the poet and composer Thomas Campion and the lutenist John Dowland, whose “Flow, my teares” (“Lachrimae”) became so popular that a large

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