Dowland's Second Book of Lute songs and Ayres

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You can download (or buy hardcopy) of this book at the Lulu.com Laymusic store.

Here are the sources for all the Dowland on the site.

Here are the MIDI files for all the dowland on the site.

Table of Contents

Songs to two Voices

• I I saw my Lady weepe,
• II Flow my tears
• III Sorrow sorrow stay,
• IIII Dye not beefore thy day,
• V Mourne, mourne,,
• VI Times eldest sonne,
• VII Then sit thee downe,
• VIII When others sings Venite exaltemus,

Songs to 4. Voices

• IX Praise blindness eies,
• X O sweet woods the delight of solitarinesse
• XI If floods of teares could cleanse my follies past,
• XII Fine knacks for ladies,
• XIII Now cease my wandring eies,
• XIIII Come yee heavy states of night,
• XV XV. White as Lillies was hir face,
• XVI XVI. Wofull hart with griefe oppressed,
• XVII A shepheard in a shade
• XVIII XVIII. Faction that ever dwells
• XIX XIX. Shall I sue
• XX Tosse not my Soul

Songs to 5. Voices

• XXI Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring,
• XXII XXII. Humor say what mak'st thou heere

Some other transcriptions

• II. Flow my teares fall from your springs:

  Frank Nordberg, the webmaster of Musicaviva, transcribed this in Finale, and gave me permission to put up his PDF of the score, with both the lute tab and a realization of it, with the cantus part. He puts more work into his MIDI files than I do -- here's the one for this transcription. I usually make my group play this before tackling the 5-part version.

• O sweet woods

  Note that the ABC w: construct is insufficiently flexible to deal with this structure, where there's a chorus which appears before the four verses. So the ABC notes are the same as the lilypond ones, but I fixed up the underlay after the translation to lilypond.

  For a more modern take, Erik Koerner transcribed this one in lilypond. Here's the lilypond, and here's the pdf for the score. For some reason, the parts Eric sent me won't convert to pdf on my machine, so here's a zip file with the parts in postscript. And here's the MIDI

• XVII. A Shepheard in a shade,

  Here's my first lute tablature transcription: ABC, pdf. In order to use the ABC, you need to get abctab2ps. Thanks are due to Christoph Dalitz, both for writing abctap2ps, and for helping with entry and proofreading of this piece.

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Laura Conrad

Last modified: Fri Feb 2 11:29:38 EST 2007

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Last modified: 2007-02-02 11:29, 2007
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