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Lachrimae Antiquae, a Renaissance-era lute song, is the opening piece of Dowland's seminal collection "Lachrimae or Seaven Teares." Its melancholic melody and polyphonic structure influenced both vocal and instrumental music of the early 17th century.

Lachrimae Antiquae is the opening piece of Dowland's seminal collection "Lachrimae or Seaven Teares" (1604), a set of pavans for viol consort and lute that epitomizes the Renaissance "melancholy aesthetic".