John Dowland

Life

Born: c.1563

Buried: February 20, 1626

Biography

View the Wikipedia article on John Dowland.

• For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see John Dowland compositions

List of vocal works

Secular songs

Songs for solo voice

Far from triumphing Court

In darkness let me dwell

Lasso vita mia, mi fa morire

Songs for two voices

Die not before thy day Flow my tears, fall from your springs I saw my lady weep

Lady if you so spite me Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled Sorrow, sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears

Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis' Time's eldest son, Old Age, the heir of Ease When others sing 'Venite exultemus'

Songs for three voices

All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed Awake, sweet love Away with these self-loving lads Burst forth my tears By a fountain where I lay Can she excuse my wrongs Come again sweet love doth now invite Come away, come sweet love Come heavy sleep Come ye heavy states of night Dear, if you change Disdain me still Faction that ever dwells in court Farewell unkind farewell Fie on this faining, is love without desire Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new Flow my tears, fall from your springs Flow not so fast ye fountains Go crystal tears His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd I must complain, yet do enjoy

If fluds of teares could clense my follies past If my complaints could passions move If that a sinner's sighs be Angels' food In this trembling shadow It was a time when silly bees could speake Lend your eares to my sorrow good people Love stood amazed at sweet beauty's pain Love those beams that breed The lowest trees have tops Me, me and none but me My heart and tongue were twins My thoughts are wing'd Now cease my wand'ring eyes Now, O now, I needs must part O sweet woods, the delight of solitarienesse Oh what hath overwrought my all amazed thought Praise blindnesse eies, for seeing is deceipt Rest a while you cruel cares Say love if ever thou didst find Scheiden muss ich jetzt von dir Shall I strive with words to move

Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace A shepherd in a shade his plaining made Sleep wayward thoughts Stay time a while thy flying Sweet stay a while Tell me true Love where shall I seek thy being Think'st thou then by thy feigning To ask for all thy love Tosse not my soule Unquiet thoughts Up merry mates Weep you no more sad fountains Were every thought an eye What if I never speed What poor astronomers are they When Phœbus first did Daphne love White as lilies was her face Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love Wilt thou unkind thus reave me Woeful heart with grief oppressed Would my conceit that first enforc'd my woe

Songs for five voices

Cease these false sports Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring

Come when I call, or tarrie till I come Flow not so fast ye fountains

Humor say what makst thou heere Welcome black night

Sacred works

All people that on earth do dwell (1592) All people that on earth do dwell (1621) All people that on earth do dwell (Gustav Holst) Behold and have regard I shame on mine unworthiness In trouble and adversitie Lord hear my prayer Lord in thy wrath reprove me not Lord to thee I make my moan (1597)

Lord, to thee I make my moan (1592) My soul, praise the Lord, speak good of his name O Lord consider my distress O Lord of whom I do depend O Lord, turn not away thy face Praise God upon the lute and viol A Prayer for the Queen A psalme before Evening praier A psalme before morning praier

Put me not to rebuke, O Lord Shout to Jehovah, all the earth Thou art my Life Thou mighty God - When David's life by Saul - When the poor Cripple What is the cause Where righteousness doth say Where sin sore wounding Why did the Gentiles

 
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Publications

• The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
• Henry Nowell Lamentations (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.