John Dowland
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Life
Born: c.1563
Buried: February 20, 1626
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on John Dowland.
List of vocal works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see John Dowland compositions
The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
- of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute.
- Unquiet thoughts
- Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love
- My thoughts are winged with hopes
- If my complaints could passions move
- Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak
- Now, O now, I needs must part
- Dear, if you change I'll never choose again
- Burst forth my tears
- Go crystal tears
- Thinkst thou then by thy feigning
- Come away, come sweet love
- Rest a while you cruel cares
- Sleep wayward thoughts
- All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed
- Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart?
- Would my conceit that first enforced my woe
- Come again sweet love doth now invite
- His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd
- Awake sweet love thou art returned
- Come heavy sleep
- Away with these self-loving lads
- 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
- Flow my tears, fall from your springs
- Sorrow, sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
- Die not before thy day
- Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
- Time's eldest son, Old Age, the heir of Ease (First part)
- Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis' (Second part)
- When others sing 'Venite exultemus' (Third part)
- Praise blindness eyes, for seeing is deceit
- O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness
- If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
- ''Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new
- Now cease my wandering eyes
- Come ye heavy states of night
- White as Lillies was her face
- Woeful heart with grief oppressed
- A Shepherd in a shade his plaining made
- Faction that ever dwells in court
- Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace
- Toss not my soul
- Clear or cloudy sweet as April showering
- Humour say what makst thou here
- 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
- Time stands still
- Behold a wonder here
- Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing
- Me me and none but me
- When Phœbus first did Daphne love
- Say love if ever thou didst find
- Flow not so fast ye fountains
- What if I never speed
- Love stood amazed at sweet beauty's pain
- Lend your ears to my sorrow good people
- By a fountain where I lay
- Oh what hath overwrought my all amazed thought
- Farewell unkind farewell
- Weepe you no more sad fountaines
- Fie on this faining, 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
- Come when I call, or tarry till I come
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)
- When David's life by Saul (Part 2)
- When the poor Cripple (Part 3)
- Where sin sore wounding
- My heart and tongue were twins
- Up merry mates
- Welcome black night
- Cease these false sports
Other works
Henry Nowell Lamentations (according to IMSLP, written 1597 and published later as part of A Pilgrim's Solace)
- O Lord, turn not away thy face
- Lord in thy wrath reprove me not
- O Lord consider my distress
- O Lord of whom I do depend
- Where righteousness doth say
- Lord to thee I make my moan (1597)
- Lord hear my prayer
Other sacred works
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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
- Works by John Dowland in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
- 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.