Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (1563'1626) today continues to delight singers, musicians, and music lovers alike. This collection of 45 songs includes all the works in Dowland's original third and fourth books of lute songs, the composer's contributions to his son's anthology of 1610, and a dance for solo guitar. Content :
THE THRID AND LAST BOOKE
I. Farewell too fair
II. Time stands still
III. Behold a wonder here
IV. Daphne was not so chaste
V. Me, me and none but me
VI. When Phoebus first did Daphne love
VII. Say Love if ever thou didst find
VIII. Flow not so fast ye fountains
IX. What if I never speed'
X. Love stood amaz'd
XI. Lend your ears to my sorrow
XII. By a fountain where I lay
XIII. Oh what hath overwrought
XIV. Farewell unkind farewell
XV. Weep you no more, sad fountains
XVI. Fie on this feigning
XVII. I must complain
XVIII It was a time when silly bees could speak
XIX. The lowest trees have tops
XX. What poor astronomers are they
XXI. Come when I call (for two voices and two lutes)
A PILGRIMES SOLACE
I. Disdain me still
II. Sweet stay awhile
III. To ask for all thy love
IV. Love those beams
V. Shall I strive with words to move (Mignarda, a galliard is Dowland's title for the solo lute version of the lyre Shall I strive with words to move.
VI. Were every thought an eye
VII. Stay Time awhile thy flying
VIII. Tel me true Love (with chorus)
The next three with treble and bass viols ofr violin and cello:
IX. Go nightly cares
X. From silent night
XI. Lasso vita mia
XII. In this trembling shadow
XIII. If that a sinner's sighs
A three-part work:
XIV. Thou mighty God
XV. When David's life
XVI. When the poor cripple
XVII. Where sin sore wounding
XVIII. My heart and tongue were twins
The next with chorus:
XIX. Up merry mates
XX. Welcome black night
XXI. Cease these false sports
THREE AYRES FROM A MUSICALL BANQUET
Far from triumphing Court
Lady if you so spite me
In darkness let me dwell
GALLIART TO LACHRIMAE
A lute solo from A Pilgrimes Solace, transcribed for guitar

Traduction Doc Rossi
Compositeur : Damiani Andrea
Instrumentation : Luth
Publication Date: 1999
Series: Teoria e Didattica della Musica (Theoretical and Educational Texts)
Pages: pp. 208
CONTENTS
*  Preface
*  Introduction
*  CHAPTER 1. TUNING AND TABLATURE
Tuning - Tablature (French tablature - Italian tablature - Rhythm symbols - Fingering and other symbols) - Stringing and doubling - Tuning practice (Practical advice on tuning - Tuning problems) - Strings
*  CHAPTER 2. BASIC TECHNIQUES
Posture and position of the lute - Right-hand position - Right-hand functions - Sound production (Positioning p - Forearm movement - Attack - Positioning i) - Alternating p and i - Finger articulation for polyphonic passages (Positioning p - Positioning i) - Preparatory exercises - Differences from guitar technique - Body control
*  CHAPTER 3. THE RIGHT HAND
Forearm and accentuation - Fingering
*  CHAPTER 4. THE LEFT HAND
General principals - Preparatory exercises - Avoiding stiffness - Differences from guitar technique - Hand coordination
*  CHAPTER 5. SCALES
Right-hand scale technique (Forearm movement - Finger articulation - Integrating the two techniques)
*  CHAPTER 6. EXERCISES FOR TWO LUTES
Exercises on a ground bass - Contrapuntal exercises - Articulation - Dances and ground basses
*  CHAPTER 7. SHIFTING LEFT-HAND POSITIONS
Fundamental principals - Position changes using the same finger - Position changes by substitution - Position changes by jump
*  CHAPTER 8. EXERCISES FOR TWO LUTES WITH POSITION CHANGES
*  CHAPTER 9. RIGHT-HAND TECHNIQUE IN POLYPHONIC MUSIC
p-i articulation - Positioning m - Rest stroke with p - Left-hand positions and movement - m-i articulation - Combining p, i and m - Easy pieces in two voices - Two-voice scales
*  CHAPTER 10. COUNTERPOINT
Voice progression and intervals - The species - Florid counterpoint - Imitation - Syncopation - Suspension
*  CHAPTER 11. CONTRAPUNTAL PIECES IN TWO VOICES
*  CHAPTER 12. THREE VOICES
The right hand - Combining chords and single notes - Repeated chords and monophonic passages - Arpeggios - Chords and counterpoint
*  CHAPTER 13. CONTRAPUNTAL PIECES IN THREE VOICES
Technical aspects: three-voice scales, the barre - Contrapuntal pieces in three voices
*  CHAPTER 14. CHORDS OF FOUR OR MORE NOTES
The ring finger (a) - Five- and six-note chords - Chords played with p
*  CHAPTER 15. IDIOMATIC LUTE COMPOSITIONS
Chords and divisions - Characteristics of lute composition
*  CHAPTER 16. TRANSFORMATION OF LUTE TECHNIQUE DURING THE 16th CENTURY
Evolution of right-hand position - Exercises for m-i alternation
*  CHAPTER 17. TECHNIQUE
Scales (Full-length scales in all keys - Scales with divisions) - Speed - Left-hand legato and ornamentation - The barre (Preparatory exercises - Barre exercises) - Scales in two and more voices (Two-voice scales - Three-voice scales) - Polyphonic patterns - Right-hand exercises
*  CHAPTER 18. RENAISSANCE PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
Interpretation (Rhetoric - Sound quality - Rhythmic inequality) - Ornamentation (16th-century sources - The first half of the 16th century - The second half of the 16th century - The first half of the 17th century - The Elizabethans)
*  CHAPTER 19. TEMPERAMENT
Meantone temperament - Equal temperament