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 also known as John Douland John Dooland Born: 1563 probably in London, England Buried: 20 Feb 1626 |
John Dowland
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For more complete information, please see - - the Wiki article - - the CPDL article - - - - the WIMA article - - the IMSLP article - - A selection of his work organised by 'Book', as published in his time, is below... |
| Title | # in Book | available in |
|---|---|---|
The First Book of Songs or Ayres | ||
| Unquiet thoughts | i | NWC or MIDI |
| Whoever Thinks, Or Hopes of Love | ii | NWC or MIDI |
| My thoughts are wing'd with hopes | iii | NWC or MIDI |
| If My Complaints | iv | NWC or MIDI |
| Can She Excuse My Wrongs | v | NWC or MIDI |
| Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part | vi | NWC or MIDI |
| Dear, if you change | vii | NWC or MIDI |
| Burst Forth My Tears | viii | NWC or MIDI |
| Go, Crystal Tears | ix | NWC or MIDI |
| Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning | x | NWC or MIDI |
| Come Away, Come Sweet Love | xi | NWC or MIDI |
| Rest a While, You Cruel Cares | xii | NWC or MIDI |
| Sleep, Wayward Thoughts | xiii | NWC or MIDI |
| All Ye Whom Love or Fortune | xiv | NWC or MIDI |
| Wilt thou unkind thus reave me | xv | NWC or MIDI |
| Would my conceit | xvi | NWC or MIDI |
| Come Again Sweet Love doth now invite | xvii | NWC or MIDI |
| His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd | xviii | NWC or MIDI |
| Awake, Sweet Love | xix | NWC or MIDI |
| Come Heavy Sleep | xx | NWC or MIDI |
| Away with these self loving lads | xxi | NWC or MIDI |
The Second Book of Songs or Ayres | ||
| I saw my lady weep | i | NWC or MIDI |
| Flow my tears | ii | NWC or MIDI |
| Sorrow, sorrow stay | iii | NWC or MIDI |
| Die not before thy day | iv | NWC or MIDI |
| Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled | v | NWC or MIDI |
| Time's eldest son, old age the heir of ease - Part 1 of 3 | vi | NWC or MIDI |
| Then sit thee down - Part 2 of 3 | vii | NWC or MIDI |
| When others sing Venite exultemus - Part 3 of 3 | viii | NWC or MIDI |
| Praise blindness eyes | ix | NWC or MIDI |
| O sweet woods, the delight of solitaryness | x | NWC or MIDI |
| Fine knacks for Ladies | xi | NWC or MIDI |
| If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past | xii | NWC or MIDI |
| Now cease my wandering eyes | xiii | NWC or MIDI |
| Come ye heavy states of night | xiv | NWC or MIDI |
| White as Lillies was her face | xv | NWC or MIDI |
| Woeful heart with grief oppressed | xvi | NWC or MIDI |
| A Shepherd in a shade his plaining made | xvii | NWC or MIDI |
| Faction that ever dwells in court | xviii | NWC or MIDI |
| Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace | xix | NWC or MIDI |
| Toss not my soul | xx | NWC or MIDI |
| Clear or cloudy, sweet as April showering | xxi | NWC or MIDI |
| Humor say what makest thou here | xxii | NWC or MIDI |
The Third & Last Book of Songs or Ayres | ||
| Farewell too fair | i | NWC or MIDI |
| Time stands still | ii | NWC or MIDI |
| Behold a wonder here | iii | NWC or MIDI |
| Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing | iv | NWC or MIDI |
| Me, me and none but me | v | NWC or MIDI |
| When Phœbus first did Daphne love | vi | NWC or MIDI |
| Say love if ever thou didst find | vii | NWC or MIDI |
| Flow not so fast ye fountains | viii | NWC or MIDI |
| What if I never speed | ix | NWC or MIDI |
| Love stood amazed at sweet beauty's pain | x | NWC or MIDI |
| Lend your eares to my sorrow good people | xi | NWC or MIDI |
| By a fountain where I lay | xii | NWC or MIDI |
| Oh what hath overwrought | xiii | NWC or MIDI |
| Farewell unkind farewell | xiv | NWC or MIDI |
| Weep you no more sad fountains | xv | NWC or MIDI |
| Fie on this feigning | xvi | NWC or MIDI |
| I must complain, yet do enjoy | xvii | NWC or MIDI |
| It was a time when silly Bees could speak | xviii | NWC or MIDI |
| The lowest trees have tops | xix | NWC or MIDI |
| What poor Astronomers are they | xx | NWC or MIDI |
| Come when I call, or tarry till I come | xxi | NWC or MIDI |
A Pilgrim's Solace (Lute songs - 1621?) | ||
| Disdain me still | i | NWC or MIDI |
| Sweet stay a while | ii | NWC or MIDI |
| To ask for all thy love | iii | NWC or MIDI |
| Love those beams that breed | iv | NWC or MIDI |
| Shall I strive with words to move | v | NWC or MIDI |
| Were every thought an eye | vi | NWC or MIDI |
| Stay time a while thy flying | vii | NWC or MIDI |
| Tell me true Love where shall I seek thy being | viii | NWC or MIDI |
| Go nightly cares | ix | NWC or MIDI |
| From silent night | x | NWC or MIDI |
| Lasso vita mia | xi | NWC or MIDI |
| In this trembling shadow | xii | NWC or MIDI |
| If that a sinner's sighs be Angel's food | xiii | NWC or MIDI |
| Thou Mighty God - - - Part 1 of 3 | xiv | NWC or MIDI |
| When David's life by Saul was often sought - - - Part 2 of 3 | xv | NWC or MIDI |
| When the poor cripple by the pool did lie - - - Part 3 of 3 | xvi | NWC or MIDI |
| Where sin sore wounding | xvii | NWC or MIDI |
| My heart and tongue were twins | xviii | NWC or MIDI |
| Up merry mates | xix | NWC or MIDI |
| Welcome black night | xx | NWC or MIDI |
| Cease these false sports | xxi | NWC or MIDI |