Life
Born: c.1563
Buried: February 20, 1626
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on John Dowland.
List of vocal works
The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
- of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute.
- Unquiet thoughts
- Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love
- My thoughts are winged with hopes
- If my complaints could passions move
- Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak
- Now, O now, I needs must part
- Dear, if you change I'll never choose again
- Burst forth my tears
- Go crystal tears
- Thinkst thou then by thy feigning
- Come away, come sweet love
- Rest a while you cruel cares
- Sleep wayward thoughts
- All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed
- Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart?
- Would my conceit that first enforced my woe
- Come again sweet love doth now invite
- His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd
- Awake sweet love thou art returned
- Come heavy sleep
- Away with these self-loving lads
- A Galliard for two to play upon one Lute
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The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)
- of 2.4.and 5.parts: With Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba.
Numbers 1-8 are songs for 2 voices
Numbers 9-20 are songs for 4 voices
Numbers 21-22 are songs for 5 voices
- Praise God upon the lute and viol
- I saw my lady weep
- Flow my tears, fall from your springs
- Sorrow, sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
- Die not before thy day
- Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
- Time's eldest son, Old Age, the heir of Ease (First part)
- Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis' (Second part)
- When others sing 'Venite exultemus' (Third part)
- Praise blindness eyes, for seeing is deceit
- O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness
- If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
- ''Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new
- Now cease my wandering eyes
- Come ye heavy states of night
- White as Lillies was her face
- Woeful heart with grief oppressed
- A shepherd in a shade his plaining made
- Faction that ever dwells in court
- Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace
- Toss not my soul
- Clear or cloudy sweet as April showering
- Humour say what makst thou here
- Dowland's adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell.
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Other works
Henry Nowell Lamentations (according to IMSLP, written 1597 and published later as part of A Pilgrim's Solace)
- O Lord, turn not away thy face
- Lord in thy wrath reprove me not
- O Lord consider my distress
- O Lord of whom I do depend
- Where righteousness doth say
- Lord to thee I make my moan (1597)
- Lord hear my prayer
Other sacred works
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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)
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