John Dowland's Lute Songs Third and Fourth

Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (15631626) today continues to delight singers, musicians, and music lovers alike. This collection of 45 songs includes all the works in Dowland's original third and fourth books of lute songs, the composer's contributions to his son's anthology of 1610, and a dance for solo guitar.

Introduction

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Instrumentation

v

About the Transcriptions

v

Tuning and Transposition

vi

Types of Transcriptions

vi

THE THIRD AND LAST BOOKE

Farewell too fair

2

(2)

Time stands still

4

(2)

Behold a wonder here

6

(2)

Daphne was not so chaste

8

(2)

Me, me, and none but me

10

(2)

When Phoebus first did Daphne love

12

(2)

Say Love if ever thou didst find

14

(2)

Flow not so fast ye fountains

16

(2)

What if I never speed?

18

(2)

Love stood amaz'd

20

(2)

Lend your ears to my sorrow

22

(2)

By a fountain where I lay

24

(2)

Oh what hath overwrought

26

(2)

Farewell unkind farewell

28

(2)

Weep you no more, sad fountains

30

(2)

Fie on this feigning

32

(2)

I must complain

34

(2)

It was a time when silly bees could speak

36

(2)

The lowest trees have tops

38

(2)

What poor astronomers are they

40

(2)

Come when I call (for two voices and two lutes)

42

(4)

A PILGRIMES SOLACE

Disdain me still

46

(2)

Sweet stay awhile

48

(2)

To ask for all thy love

50

(2)

Love those beams

52

(3)

Shall I strive with words to move*

55

(3)

Were every thought an eye

58

(2)

Stay Time awhile thy flying

60

(2)

Tell me true Love (with chorus)

62

(5)

The next three with treble and bass viols or violin and cello:

Go nightly cares

67

(6)

From silent night

73

(5)

Lasso vita mia

78

(6)

In this trembling shadow

84

(3)

If that a sinner's sighs

87

(4)

A three-part work:

Thou mighty God

91

(3)

When David's life

94

(3)

When the poor cripple

97

(4)

Where sin sore wounding

101

(3)

My heart and tongue were twins

104

(2)

The next three with chorus:

Up merry mates

106

(6)

Welcome black night

112

(6)

Cease these false sports

118

THREE AYRES FROM ``A MUSICALL BANQUET''

Far from triumphing Court

124

Lady if you so spite me

127

In darkness let me dwell

130

GALLIARD TO LACHRIMAE

A lute solo from A Pilgrimes Solace, transcribed for guitar

136

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