John Dowland's Lute Songs Third and Fourth Books with Original Tablature

by Dowland, John; Nadal, David

• ISBN13: 9780486422442
• ISBN10: 0486422445
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-03
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	iv
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