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John Dowland
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Life
Born: c.1563
Buried: February 20, 1626
Biography
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List of vocal works
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= HELPSee also: a list of Dowland's works available on CPDL ordered alphabetically.
The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
- of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute.
- Unquiet thoughts 4 editions available
- Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love 4 editions available
- My thoughts are winged with hopes 4 editions available
- If my complaints could passions move 5 editions available
- Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak 5 editions available
- Now, O now I needs must part 9 editions available
- Dear, if you change I'll never choose again 5 editions available
- Burst forth my tears 4 editions available
- Go crystal tears 5 editions available
- Thinkst thou then by thy feigning 3 editions available
- Come away, come sweet love 3 editions available
- Rest a while you cruel cares 4 editions available
- Sleep wayward thoughts 4 editions available
- All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed 3 editions avilable
- Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart? 3 editions available
- Would my conceit that first enforced my woe 3 editions available
- Come again: sweet love doth now invite 14 editions available
- His golden locks time hath to silver turned 3 editions available
- Awake sweet love thou art returned 4 editions available
- Come heavy sleep 4 editions available
- Away with these self-loving lads 4 editions available
- A Galliard for two to play upon one Lute
The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)
- of 2.4.and 5.parts: With Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba.
Numbers 1-8 are songs for 2 voices
Numbers 9-20 are songs for 4 voices
Numbers 21-22 are songs for 5 voices
- I saw my lady weep 3 editions available
- Flow my tears, fall from your springs 5 editions available
- Sorrow, sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears 3 editions available
- Die not before thy day 2 editions available
- Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled 2 editions available
- Time's eldest son, Old Age, the heir of Ease (First part) 2 editions available
- Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis' (Second part) 2 editions available
- When others sing 'Venite exultemus' (Third part) 2 editions available
- Praise blindness eyes, for seeing is deceit 2 editions available
- O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness 4 editions available
- If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past 2 editions available
- Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new 8 editions available
- Now cease my wandering eyes 2 editions available
- Come ye heavy states of night 2 editions available
- White as Lillies was her face 2 editions available
- Woefull heart with grief oppressed 3 editions available
- A Shepherd in a shade his plaining made 5 editions available
- Faction that ever dwells in court 2 editions available
- Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace 3 editions available
- Toss not my soule 2 editions available
- Clear or Cloudy sweet as April showering 2 editions available
- Humour say what makst thou here 3 editions available
- Dowland's adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell.
The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)
- Newly composed to sing to the Lute, Orpharion, or viols, and a dialogue for a base and meane Lute with five voices to sing thereto.
- Farewell too fair 2 editions available
- Time stands still 2 editions available
- Behold a wonder here 2 editions available
- Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing 2 editions available
- Me me and none but me 2 editions available
- When Phœbus first did Daphne love 2 editions available
- Say love if ever thou didst find 3 editions available
- Flow not so fast ye fountains 2 editions available
- What if I never speed 2 editions available
- Love stood amazed at sweet beauty's pain 2 editions available
- Lend your ears to my sorrow good people ( )
- By a fountain where I lay 2 editions available
- Oh what hath overwrought my all amazed thought 2 editions available
- Farewell unkind farewell ( )
- Weepe you no more sad fountains 4 editions available
- Fie on this feigning, is love without desire ( )
- I must complain, yet do enjoy ( )
- It was a time when silly Bees could speak ( )
- The lowest trees have tops ( )
- What poor Astronomers are they 3 editions available
- Come when I call, or tarry till I come 2 editions available
Three songs from A Musicall Banquet (1610)
A Pilgrimes Solace (1612)
- Wherein is contained Musicall Harmonie of 3. 4. and 5. parts, to be sung and plaid with the Lute and Viols
- Disdain me still ( )
- Sweet stay a while ( )
- To ask for all thy love ( )
- Love those beams that breed ( )
- Shall I strive with words to move ( )
- Were every thought an eye ( )
- Stay time a while thy flying ( )
- Tell me true Love where shall I seek thy being ( )
- Go nightly cares ( )
- From silent night (
- Lasso vita mia, mi fa morire ( )
- In this trembling shadow ( )
- If that a sinner's sighs be Angels' food ( )
- Thou mighty God (Part 1) 2 editions available
- When David's life by Saul (Part 2) 2 editions available
- When the poor Cripple (Part 3) 2 editions available
- Where sin sore wounding ( )
- My heart and tongue were twins ( )
- Up merry mates ( )
- Welcome black night ( )
- Cease these false sports ( )
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Publications
- The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
- The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)
- The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)
- A Pilgrimes Solace (1612)
External links
- Listen to a free recording of Awake sweet loue thou art returnd from Coro Nostro, a mixed chamber choir based in Leicester, UK.
- Harald Lillmeyer's Site - Contains original facsimiles of Dowland's First, Second and Third Books of Songs or Airs.
