John Dowland

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Born: 1563

Buried: February 20, 1626

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• The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)

1. Vnquiet thoughts   4 editions available
2. Who euer thinkes or hopes of loue for loue   3 editions available
3. My thoughts are winged with hopes   3 editions available
4. If my complaints could passions moue   4 editions available
5. Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake    4 editions available
6. Now, O now I needs must part    6 editions available
7. Deare if you change Ile neuer chuse againe    4 editions available
8. Burst forth my teares    3 editions available
9. Goe crystall teares    5 editions available
10. Thinkst thou then by thy fayning    3 editions available
11. Come away, come sweet loue    3 editions available
12. Rest a while you cruell cares    4 editions available
13. Sleep wayward thoughts    4 editions available
14. All ye whom loue or fortune hath betrayd    3 editions avilable
15. Wilt thou vnkinde thus reaue me of my heart ?    3 editions available
16. Would my conceit that first enforst my woe    3 editions available
17. Come againe : sweet loue doth now inuite    12 editions available
18. His golden locks time hath to siluer turnd    3 editions available
19. Awake sweet loue thou art returnd    4 editions available
20. Come heauy sleepe    4 editions available
21. Away with these self-louing lads    4 editions available

A Galliard for two to play vpon one Lute

• The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)

Numbers 1-8 are songs for 2 voices
Numbers 9-20 are songs for 4 voices
Numbers 21-22 are songs for 5 voices

1. I saw my lady weepe   3 editions available
2. Flow my teares fall from your springs   4 editions available
3. Sorow sorow stay, lend true repentant teares   2 editions available
4. Dye not before thy day   2 editions available
5. Mourne, mourne, day is with darknesse fled   2 editions available
6. Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease (First part)   2 editions available
7. Then sit thee downe,& say thy Nunc demittis (Second part)   2 editions available
8. When others sings Venite exultemus (Third part)   2 editions available
9. Praise blindnesse eies, for seeing is deceipt   2 editions available
10. O sweet woods, the delight of solitarienesse    4 editions available
11. If fluds of teares could clense my follies past   2 editions available
12. Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new   8 editions available
13. Now cease my wandring eyes   2 editions available
14. Come ye heauie states of night   2 editions available
15. White as Lillies was hir face   2 editions available
16. Wofull heart with griefe opressed   3 editions available
17. A Sheperd in a shade his plaining made   5 editions available
18. Faction that euer dwells in court   2 editions available
19. Shall I sue, shall I seeke for grace   3 editions available
20. Tosse not my soule    2 editions available
21. Cleare or Cloudie sweet as Aprill showring   2 editions available
22. Humor say what makst thou heere   3 editions available

Dowlands adew for Master Oliuer Cromwell.

• The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)

1. Farewell too faire (  )
2. Time stands still    2 editions available
3. Behold a wonder heere   (  )
4. Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing   (  )
5. Me me and none but me   (  )
6. When Phœbus first did Daphne loue   (  )
7. Say loue if euer thou didst finde    2 editions available
8. Flow not so fast ye fountaines    2 editions available
9. What if I neuer speede    2 editions available
10. Loue stood amaz'd at sweet beauties paine   (  )
11. Lend your eares to my sorrow good people   (  )
12. By a fountaine where I lay   (  )
13. Oh what hath ouerwrought my all amazed thought   (  )
14. Farewell vnkind farewell   (  )
15. Weepe you no more sad fountaines    4 editions available
16. Fie on this faining, is loue without desire   (  )
17. I must complaine, yet doe enioy   (  )
18. It was a time when silly Bees could speake   (  )
19. The lowest trees haue tops   (  )
20. What poore Astronomers are they    3 editions available
21. Come when I call, or tarrie till I come   (  )

• A Pilrimes Solace (1612)

1. Disdaine me still   (  )
2. Sweet stay a while   (  )
3. To aske for all thy love   (  )
4. Love those beames that breede   (  )
5. Shall I strive with wordes to move   (  )
6. Were every thought an eye   (  )
7. Stay time a while thy flying   (  )
8. Tell me true Love where shall I seeke thy being   (  )
9. Goe nightly cares   (  )
10. From silent night   (  )
11. Lasso vita mia, mi fa morire   (  )
12. In this trembling shadow   (  )
13. If that a sinner's sighes be Angel's foode   (  )
14. Thou Mighty God (Part 1)   (  )
15. When David;s life by Saul was often sought (Part 2)   (  )
16. When the poore Criple by the poole did lye (Part 3)   (  )
17. Where Sinne sore wounding   (  )
18. My heart and tongue were twinnes   (  )
19. Up merry mates   (  )
20. Welcome black night   (  )
21. Cease these false sports   (  )

• Thou mighty God - When David's life by Saul was often sought - When the poore Criple by the poole did lye all in one transcription   (   Finale-2000 )

• All people that on earth do dwell   (    MUP )

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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.