The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (John Dowland)
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General description
Title: The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of four parts with Tabulature for the Lute
Publication date and place: 1597 in London.
Description: The first of John Dowland's 3 books.
Facsimile:
Works included
| No. | Title | Voices | Voices | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unquiet thoughts | 4 | ||
| 2 | Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love | 4 | ||
| 3 | My thoughts are winged with hopes | 4 | ||
| 4 | If my complaints could passions move | 4 | ||
| 5 | Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak | 4 | ||
| 6 | Now, O now, I needs must part | 4 | ||
| 7 | Dear, if you change I'll never choose again | 4 | ||
| 8 | Burst forth my tears | 4 | ||
| 9 | Go crystal tears | 4 | ||
| 10 | Thinkst thou then by thy feigning | 4 | ||
| 11 | Come away, come sweet love | 4 | ||
| 12 | Rest a while you cruel cares | 4 | ||
| 13 | Sleep wayward thoughts | 4 | ||
| 14 | All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed | 4 | ||
| 15 | Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart? | 4 | ||
| 16 | Would my conceit that first enforced my woe | 4 | ||
| 17 | Come again sweet love doth now invite | 4 | ||
| 18 | His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd | 4 | ||
| 19 | Awake sweet love thou art returned | 4 | ||
| 20 | Come heavy sleep | 4 | ||
| 21 | Away with these self-loving lads | 4 | ||
| 22 | A Galliard for two to play upon one Lute |
Works at CPDL
| No. | Title | Lyricist | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices | Instruments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unquiet thoughts | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 2 | Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love | Fulke Greville | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute |
| 3 | My thoughts are wing'd | George Clifford | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB,SABB | Lute |
| 4 | If my complaints could passions move | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 5 | Can she excuse my wrongs | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 6 | Now, O now, I needs must part | John Dowland | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute |
| 7 | Dear, if you change | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 8 | Burst forth my tears | Anonymous lyricist | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute |
| 9 | Go crystal tears | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SATB | a cappella and/or lute | |
| 10 | Think'st thou then by thy feigning | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 11 | Come away, come sweet love | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 12 | Rest a while you cruel cares | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 13 | Sleep wayward thoughts | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 14 | All ye, whom love or fortune hath betrayed | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATB | Lute or a cappella | |
| 15 | Wilt thou unkind thus reave me | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 16 | Would my conceit that first enforc'd my woe | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 17 | Come again sweet love doth now invite | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB, SSAA | Lute | |
| 18 | His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd | George Peele | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SATB | Lute |
| 19 | Awake, sweet love | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 20 | Come heavy sleep | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute | |
| 21 | Away with these self-loving lads | Secular | Lute songs | 4 | SATB | Lute |