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"Come again!",  page 1 and page 2 (pdf files).

 

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John Dowland:

English Lute Songs

a selection, edited by Brian Jeffery

Twelve of the best-known songs of John Dowland, presented so that they can be sung with either lute or guitar accompaniment.  A very popular Tecla book.

32 pages.  12 x 9 inches. First published by Tecla in 1982, now in its fourth printing.

Paperbound TECLA 0038
Price 10.00 euros / or 7.00 UK pounds / or 14.00 US dollars
ISBN 978-0-906953-38-9


November 2002 NEWLY REPRINTED AT THE ORIGINAL LARGE SIZE (12 x 9 inches).

Each song is here presented with its accompaniment written out twice:

  • Once in tablature, which is very easy to read and can be played either on a lute, or easily on a guitar with the third string tuned down from G to F sharp;
  • and once in ordinary guitar notation for guitar with the third string tuned to G as usual, so that it can be played on a normal guitar in the usual way.

You can see how it works by looking at the first song here, "Come again!", page 1 and page 2 (pdf files).

FOR MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK, AND LIST OF THE INDIVIDUAL SONGS, SEE BELOW.

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The book contains the following songs:

  • Come again! sweet Love doth now invite
  • Sleep, wayward thoughts
  • Awake, sweet love
  • Flow, my tears [Dowland's most famous song]
  • I saw my lady weep
  • Shall I sue
  • Flow not so fast, ye fountains
  • Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
  • Sweet, stay awhile
  • To ask for all thy love
  • Stay, Time, awhile thy flying
  • Time stands still
The vocal range is not high at all if the songs are sung with a normal guitar: only up to D or E at most.  If the songs are sung with a lute in G, then the voice sings a minor third higher, up to E or F or G except three songs which only go up to D. 

The very fine calligraphy in this edition was done by Barry Mason, who nowadays (2003) is the owner of the Spanish Guitar Centre in Cranbourn Street, London.

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