Lute Music of John Dowland
John Dowland stands out as the most tuneful Elizabethan lute composer. Whether creating tunes for dances, variatons on popular ballads or weaving a contrapuntal fantasia, his melodies lodge in the memory and resound there long after the music has stopped. Over half of Dowland's compostitions are written in dance forms - mostly pavans, galliards and almains. These pieces are written as art music, not intended to accompany dancing, though they embody the character of the physical movements of the dance. - Ronn McFarlane
Tracks
- A Varietie of Lute Lessons: Sir John Smith, his Almain, P. 47
- Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P. 19
- My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, P. 66
- Melancholy Galliard, P. 25
- Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, P. 54
- Piper's Pavan, P. 8
- A Varietie of Lute Lessons: The Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P. 42, "Can she excuse"
- Fantasie No. 1
- Fortune my foe, P. 62
- Lady Laiton's Almain, P. 48
- Lachrimae, P. 15: Lachrimae
- A Varietie of Lute Lessons: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, P. 41
- Tarleton's Resurrection, P. 59
- Mrs. Winter's Jump, P. 55
- Prelude, P. 98: Preludium
- Dowland's Galliard, P. 20
- Go from my window, P. 64
- Round Battle Galliard, P. 39
- What if a day, P. 79
- The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy, P. 58
- A Fancy No. 5
- Mr. Dowland's Midnight, P. 99
- Dr. Case's Pavan, P. 12
- Orlando Sleepeth, P. 61
- A Varietie of Lute Lessons: The Right Honourable the Lady Clifton's Spirit, P. 45
- Semper Dowland semper dolens, P. 9
- The Frog Galliard, P. 23
- Mrs. White's Nothing, P. 56
