Awake, sweet love (John Dowland)

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• CPDL #11128: NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-02-28).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 18 kbytes   Copyright: GnuGPL

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• CPDL #06742:

Editor: John D. Smith (submitted 2004-02-20).   Score information: 44 x 62 cm, 2 pages, 51 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #05486: PDF, MIDI and Capella 4 files available.

Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2003-08-18).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 44 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #02995: PDF, MIDI, ABC and LilyPond files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2001-09-11).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 79 kbytes   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: in partbook format.

General Information

Title: Awake, Sweet Love
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lute song

Language: English
Instruments: Lute
Published: The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597), no.19

Description:

External websites:

• Listen to a free recording of this piece from Coro Nostro, a mixed chamber choir based in Leicester, UK.

Original text and translations

English text

Awake, sweet Love! thou art return'd:

My heart, which long in absence mourn'd,

Lives now in perfect joy,

Only herself hath seemed fair,

She only I could love;

She only drove me to despair

When she unkind did prove.