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John Dowland

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A Dream (6)
A Fancy, P5 (3)
A Fancy, P6 (2)
A Fancy, P73 (2)
A Fancy (15)
A Fantasie, P1a (5)
A Galliard on Walsingham, P31 (1)
A Galliard (2)
A Pavion Solus cum sola (1)
A Piece without title (2)
A Pilgrim's Solace (21) (1)
A coye joye, P80 (1)
All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100) (1)
All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd (6)
Almain (An unnamed piece) (1)
An Almand (1)
Aria (2)
A shepherd in a shade (6)
Awake, sweet love (6)
Away with these self-loving lads (4)
Battle Galliard (3)
Behold a wonder here (2)
Burst forth my tears (5)
By a fountain where I lay (1)
Can She Excuse Puck's Wrong (2)
Can she excuse my wrongs (The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard), P42 (arr. Margret Koell) (1)
Can she excuse my wrongs (The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard), P42 (arr. William Randall) (1)
Can she excuse my wrongs (The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard), P42 (34)
Captain Candish's Galliard (1)
Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P19 (15)
Captaine Pipers Pavin (1)
Clear or cloudy (2)
Come, heavy sleep (arr. Sini Simonen for string quartet) (1)
Come, heavy sleep (16)
Come again, sweet Love doth now invite (30)
Come away come sweet love (First Book of Songs) (5)
Come when I call (2)
Complaint (3)
Coranto, P100 (3)
Courante (1)
Dear, if you change (2)
Disdain me still (1)
Dowland's Adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell (arr. for lute) (1)
Dowland's Adieu (1)
Dowland's Galliard (1)
Dowland's Tears (after Dowland's Book of Songs, Book 2: I saw my lady weep) (1)
Dowland's adew for Master Cromwell (4)
Dr Case's Pauen (2)
Fancyes (2) (2)
Fancy in B minor (1)
Fancy in G major 'Tremolo' (1)
Fancy (1)
Fantasia, P71 (2)
Fantasia (4)
Fantasies (7) (5)
» no.1
Fantasie (2)
Farewell (An 'In nomine'), P4 (1)
Farewell, P3 (2)
Farewell Fancy (2)
Farewell unkind farewell (3)
Far from triumphing court (3)
Fie on this feigning (1)
Fine knacks for ladies (7)
First Booke of Songes or Ayres (6)
First Galliard, P22 (1)
Flow my teares (arr. David Gorton) (1)
Flow my teares (arr. Margret Koell) (1)
Flow my teares (arr. viola d'amore & cello) (1)
Flow my teares (39)
Flow not so fast, ye fountains (Third Book of Songs) (3)
Forlorn Hope Fancy, P2 (arr. Stefan Ostersjo) (1)
Forlorn Hope Fancy, P2 (9)
Fortune my foe, P62 (10)
Fortune (1)
Frog Galliard (6)
From silent night, true register of moans (A Pilgrim's Solace) (4)
Galliard in C minor, P28 (on a galliard by Daniel Bacheler) (1)
Galliard in G minor, P30 (1)
Galliards by Mary, Queen of Scots (1)
Galliard to Lachrimae, P46 (7)
Galliard (6)
George Whitehead's Almand (3)
Go crystal tears (7)
Go from my window, P64 (5)
Go nightly cares, the enemy to rest (A Pilgrim's Solace) (7)
Henry Guildforde's Almaine (1)
His golden locks time hath to silver turned (5)
If my complaints could passions move (First Book of Songs) (arr. Joakim Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
If my complaints could passions move (First Book of Songs) (12)
If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food (A Pilgrim's Solace) (2)
In darkness let me dwell (23)
In this trembling shadow (5)
Intro Paraphrase (to Handel HWV205) (1)
I saw my Ladye weepe (arr. Nico Muhly) (1)
I saw my Ladye weepe (20)
It was a time when silly bees could speak (1)
John Dowlands Galliard, P21 (1)
Kemp's jig, mistress winter's jump, my lady hunsdon's puffe (1)
La Mia Barbara (1)
Lachrimae (alternative version) (1)
Lachrimae (arr. William Randall) (1)
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7) (25)
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (arr. Joakim Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares ... with divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands (5)
Lachrimae Pavan, P15 (23)
Lachrimae Pavans (3) (1)
Lachrimae (3)
Lacrimae galliard (1)
Lacrimae pavan (4)
Lacrimae (1)
Lady, if you so spite me (6)
Lady Clifton's Spirit (1)
Lady Hunsdon's Almain (Lady Hunsdon's Puffe), P54 (7)
Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (2)
Lady Laiton's Almain, P48 (5)
Lady Rich, her Galliard (4)
Lamentatio henrici noel (1)
Lasso vita mia, mi fa morire (A Pilgrim's Solace) (5)
Lend your eares to my sorrow good people (1)
Lord Strang's March (3)
Lord Willoughbies Welcome home (1)
Lord Willoughbies his Galliard (1)
Loth to depart, P69 (3)
Love those beams (1)
Lute Solos (3) (1)
Me, me and none but me (5)
Melancholy Galliard, P25 (12)
Mignarda, P34 (5)
Mistress Nichols Almand (4)
Mistress White's Nothing, P56 (3)
Mistress White's Thing (Mrs White's Choice), P50 (1)
Mistress Winter's Jump, P55 (3)
Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled (4)
Mr Bucton his Galliard (5)
Mr Dowland's Midnight, P99 (11)
Mr George Whitehead his Almand (8)
Mr Giles Hobies Galliard, H15 (arr. Christian Lindberg for brass ensemble) (1)
Mr Giles Hobies Galliard, H15 (4)
Mr Henry Noell his Galliard (5)
Mr John Langtons Pavane (8)
Mr Knight's Galliard (1)
Mr Langton's Galliard (2)
Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard (3)
Mr Thomas Collier his Galliard (2)
Mrs Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan alias Solus Sine Sola (1)
Mrs Nichols Almand (5)
Mrs Norrish's Delight (1)
Mrs Vaux's Galliard (1)
Mrs Vaux's Jig, P57 (3)
Mrs White's Nothing (1)
Mrs White's Thing (2)
Mrs Winter's Jump, P55 (6)
My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, P54 (3)
My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard, P37 (2)
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, P66 (11)
My hope is revived (1)
My soul praise the Lord (Psalm 104) (1)
My thoughts are winged with hopes (6)
Now, O now, I needs must part (14)
Now cease, my wandering eyes (2)
Orlando Sleepeth (arrangement for lute), P61 (5)
Orlando Sleepeth, P61 (1)
O sweet woods (2)
Paduan a 4 (1)
Paduana Lachrymae (arr. Melchior Schildt) (1)
Paduana Lachrymae (1)
Paduan (2)
Pavana Lachrymae (set by William Byrd) (3)
Pavana Lachrymae (set by William Byrd, arr. David Gorton) (1)
Pavana Lachrymae (2)
Pavan in C major (2)
Pavan in G minor, P16 (1)
Pavan in G minor, P18 (2)
Pavan (2)
Piper's Pavan, P8 (3)
Praeludium (6)
Prelude, P98 (1)
Prelude for lute (4)
Preludium (7)
Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard (5)
Resolution (2)
Robin is to the Greenwood Gone, P70 (2)
Robin (2)
Round Battle Galliard, P39 (4)
Sacred Songs (3) (1)
Say, love if ever thou didst find (12)
Semper Dowland semper dolens (arr. Christian Lindberg for brass ensemble) (1)
Semper Dowland semper dolens, P9 (16)
Shall I strive with wordes to move? (8)
Shall I sue? (6)
Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almaine (Almaine 2) (1)
Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (arr. for lute) (2)
Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (4)
Sir John Langton's Pavan (4)
Sir John Smith, his Almain, P47 (arr. Joakim Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
Sir John Smith, his Almain, P47 (10)
Sir John Souch his Galliard (6)
Sir Robert Sidney his Galliard (1)
Sleep wayward thoughts (2)
Solo Lute Music (complete) (1)
Solus cum sola, P10 (6)
Songs (11) for tenor and lute (1)
Sorrow, come (arr. William Wigthorpe) (1)
Sorrow, come (4)
Sorrow, stay (13)
Stay time awhile thy flying (2)
Susanna Galliard (2)
Sweet stay a while (4)
Tarleton's Jig (2)
Tarleton's Resurrection, P59 (10)
Tell me, true Love (3)
The Earle of Essex his Galliard (arr. Christian Lindberg for brass ensemble) (1)
The Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P12 (13)
The Frog Galliard, P23 (arr. Joakim Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
The Frog Galliard, P23 (arr. Margret Koell) (1)
The Frog Galliard, P23 (10)
The King of Denmark's Galliard, P40 (arr. Christian Lindberg for brass ensemble) (1)
The King of Denmark's Galliard, P40 (16)
The Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (1)
The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earle of Darby, His Galliard, P44a (3)
The Right Honourable the Lady Cliftons Spirit, P45 (1)
The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard, P91 (4)
The Second Book of Songs (22) (1)
The Shepherd's Pipe (1)
The Shoemaker's Wife, a Toy, P58 (6)
The lowest trees have tops (1)
The most sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, P41 (9)
The right honorable Robert Earl of Essex, his galliard (1)
Think'st thou then by thy feigning? (2)
Thou mighty God (2)
Time stands still (arr. Friedrike Chylek) (1)
Time stands still (17)
To asl for all thy love (1)
Toss not my soul (2)
Une Jeune Fillette (1)
Untitled, P78 (1)
Up merry mates (1)
Varietie of Lute Lessons (1)
Volta (2)
Walsingham, P67 (2)
Weep you no more, sad fountains (Third Book of Songs) (6)
Were every thought an eye (3)
What if I never speed? (Third Book of Songs) (2)
What if a day (3)
What poor astronomers are they (1)
When Phoebus first did Daphne love (3)
White as lilies was her face (1)
Whoever thinks or hopes of love (1)
Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart (First Book of Songs) (5)
Woeful heart (1)
Would my conceits (2)

John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" (the basis for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal), "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's Early music revival has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists.

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