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The definitive edition
THE AUTHORS

The late Diana Poulton (1903-95) was the first Professor of Lute at the Royal College of Music, and in her lifetime was the recognized authority on Dowland.With Ian Harwood she also founded the British Lute Society, the first of its kind in the World.

Together with the biography John Dowland, this book represents the culmination of her life's work.According to an article by Donna Curry ("Diana Poulton: An Appreciation of Her Life"): "[R]esearch was not an easy proposition before microfilm, photocopies, and reference books citing locations of MSS and first editions.Existence and location of music had to be found in library catalogs when obtainable. Copying had to be by hand in pencil. If music abroad were needed, it meant traveling there, ordering expensive photographs, or finding a local friend who would copy it.Diana's hand copied music, books, documents, etc., filled stacks of notebooks."

Basil Lam (a guiding spirit behind the early days of the BBC Third Programme) was a noted Early Music scholar who died in 1984, and was here responsible for the transcription into staff notation.

CONTENTS

This book comprises all lute works by Dowland that were known at the time of its publication*.They are classified as follows:

Fantasies (7)
Pavans (11)
Galliards (28)
Almaines (8)
Jigs (5)
Song arrangements (1)
Settings of Ballad Tunes (10)
Pieces of uncertain ascription (17)
Other versions (16)

plus

Calendar of dates in the life of John Dowland
Biographical Notes
List of Sources
Editorial Notes
Index of Titles

Some pieces are presented in multiple versions.The numbering system used is now standard for these works.The published versions are the result of a great deal of cross-checking of sources, since misprints were very common.

FORMAT

The pieces are presented in staff notation (bass and treble clefs), with French lute tablature below.

For guitarists, it's easy to read the pieces for 6-course lute straight from the tablature.I also had no trouble copying the various voices from the staff notation into different layers of a single 8vb treble clef in Finale, and transposing the result down a minor third to produce guitar notation (3rd string to F#, of course).

Pieces for more than six courses present a problem, obviously.One solution is to make duets of them, in the manner of Presti/Lagoya or the Abreu Brothers.

PRESENTATION

The book is printed on very good quality paper, and is approximately 9" x 12".It weighs nearly 3.5 lb.

SUMMARY

This is THE definitive edition of Dowland's lute music.Accept no other!

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Title: John Dowland. (Music Reviews).
Author: Gary R. Boye
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 58Issue: 3Page: 679(4)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, I Saw My Lady Weepe, Flow My Tears, Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard. Excerpt: "I Saw My Lady Weepe" is a lute song from the Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, by Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland. It is the first song in the Second Booke and is dedicated to Anthony Holborne. While not as popular as some of his more famous songs, "I Saw My Lady Weepe" is interesting in its own way. It is an example of Dowlands use of chromaticism, and some consider it to be related to the song that follows it in the Booke. While composing "I Saw My Lady Weepe" and the other songs in the Second Booke, Dowland was heavily influenced by what has been referred to as the "Elizabethan Melancholy" or "Cult of Darkness." Most songs in his First and Third Booke also show this influence. As Robin Headlam Wells has stated above, Dowlands songs follow this convention about transmitting feelings. Wells discusses "I Saw My Lady Weepe" with these ideas in mind. According to Wells, the subject of the song is the power of the ladys beautyor in other words the overriding power of female beauty, whether spiritual or physical. This idea of power coming from a womans beauty is one that is quite common in the poetry of the Elizabethan era. Interestingly, the poetry of "I Saw My Lady Weepe" breaks with some of the conventions of its day in its treatment of the ladys beauty and charms. Rather than grouping them together, Dowland presents us with a paradox in which the lady herself becomes more beautiful than her sorrow; at this time, it was the emotion itself that was generally considered to be the beauty or charm, rather than the human subject itself. In becoming more beautiful than her suffering, the l... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7845143 ... Read more