LACHRIMAE, or Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans,

This collection contains a lot of Dowlands best dance music. It was originally written for viols or violins (including violas and cellos), but is mostly suitable for recorders, although if you don't have a C bass, you will have to do some transposing of the bottom parts. The most common recorder configuration would be SATTB.

This collection is now for sale at lulu.com. Or you can download the individual pieces below.

Note that this is only the viol (recorder, etc.) parts. I have not transcribed any of the lute parts.

Unlike the other Dowland part books, I do not include incipits, as I have done no versions with transpositions and meter changes, and the incipits would have increased the page counts significantly.

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, with divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands, set forth for the Lute, Viols, or violons, in five parts

Table of Contents

  1. Lacrimae Antiquae.
  2. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  3. Lachrimae Gementes
  4. Lachrimae Tristes
  5. Lachrimae Coactae
  6. Lachrimae Amantis
  7. Lacrimae verae.
  8. Semper Dowland, semper dolens
  9. Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
  10. M. John Langtons Pavan
  11. The King of Denmarks Galiard.
  12. The Earle of Essex Galiard.
  13. Sir John Souch his Galiard
  14. M. Henry Noell his Galiard.
  15. M Giles Hoby his Galiard.
  16. M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard.
  17. M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with two trebles.
  18. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard
  19. M. Bucton his Galiard.
  20. Mistress Nichols Almand
  21. M. George Whitehead his Almand.

Bonus piece. This piece is attributed to Dowland and was published in 1607 by Füllsack and Hildebrand, in Ausserlesner Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Galliard

Laura Conrad
Last modified: Tue Jul 17 10:49:03 EDT 2007
Last modified: 2007-07-17 10:49, 2007
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