Lute Songs

19 English Folk Songs edited by Christopher Goodwin, is a collection of new arrangements of English folk songs for voice and 7-course lute (all are playable on a 6-course instrument); the songs are easy, and the accompaniments mostly of early intermediate standard. Some arrangements are by Kristian Buhl Mortensen, or Cecil Sharp (intabulated editorially); most are new arrangements by Chris Goodwin. 44 pages, ISBN 0 905655 57 5

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres of foure parts with Tableture for the Lute. So Made, That all the parts together, or either of them severally, may be sung to the Lute, Orpherian, or Viol de gambo (London, [rev edn] 1613)

Francesco da Milano Fantasias in British Sources edited by Gordon Gregory. All the music by Francesco da Milano in British manuscript sources, all 6-course,minimally edited to preserve local variants; 20 pieces of music: 11 fantasias close to the ’canonic’ versions, 3 ornamented or corrupt versions, and 6 pieces of doubtful attribution, 46 pages.

The Collected Lute Music of Marco Dall’Aquila edited by Denys Stephens and John H. Robinson. A much expanded and augmented bound edition of the complete works of one of the great early Italian lutenists, printed over several years in Lute News, with additional information, introduction, inventory, concordances, commentary and bibliography; 32 pages of introduction, and 101 pages of tablature, all for 6-course lute, much of it not too technically demanding.

Newly composed to sing to the Lute, Orpharion, or viols, and a dialogue for a base and meane Lute with five voices to sing thereto (London, 1603)

Dowland's First Book of Songs , 21 four-part songs written in 1597, edited and published by Ian Gammie. Soprano score with part-books for the three instrumental parts, tenor part in treble and alto clefs. Words underlaid in all the instrumental parts, in the calligraphy of Joy Dodson, so that multiple different modes of performance are possible, depending on the number of singer(s) and players available.

Anthony Holborne, Music for Lute and Bandora for 6 to 9-course lutes (mostly playable on 6 or 7-course lutes), transcribed and edited in two volumes by Rainer aus dem Spring. Holborne is the second best-represented composer in the sources after John Dowland: volume 1 (218 pages) contains 58 lute solos, plus variant versions, 19 bandora solos, 2 lute songs, 10 appendix items; volume 2 (148 pages) contains full critical commentary, with variant bars fully written out in tablature. This is a comb-bound reprint of the original perfect bound edition.

The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, of 2. 4. and 5. parts: With Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba (London, 1600)

Songs from the additional manuscript 4900 and other early sources

A Pilgrimes Solace. Wherein is contained Musicall Harmonie of 3. 4. and 5. parts, to be sung and plaid with the Lute and Viols (London, 1612)

Book 1: Songs of Mellancolie. Four Consort Songs by John Dowland set for mezzo soprano and viol consort (Tr. T. T. B.). Score and parts. " In Darkness let me dwell ", "I saw my Lady weep ", " Sorrow Stay, ” “ Flow my Tears ". from Dowland's Second Book of Ayres.

The two books contain some 100 songs chosen from the definitive collections of The English Lutenists begun by Edmund Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and added to by later scholars. They include many favourites and many lesser-known songs by popular composers such as Dowland, Campion and Pilkington (no known ancestor of the compiler) as well as some unjustly forgotten such as Corkine, Attey and Ferrabosco. Nearly all are for middle-range voice, with lute parts transcribed in staff notation. The books have an appropriate preface and a commentary on the words, which often throw a penetrating light on Elizabethan and Jacobean life. CONTENTS JOHN DOWLAND Awake sweet love Clear or cloudy Come again: sweet love Come away, come sweet love Daphne was not so chaste Far from triumphing Court Farewell unkind farewell Fie on this feigning Fine knacks for ladies Flow my tears Flow not so fast ye fountains I saw my lady weep If my complaints could passions move In darkness let me dwell Lady if you so spite me Now, o now I needs must part Shall I sue? Sleep, wayward thoughts Sorrow, sorrow, stay Sweet stay awhile Time stands still To ask for all thy love Toss not my soul Weep you no more, sad fountains What if I never speed? When Phoebus first did Daphne love ROBERT JONES Fie, what a coil is here! Go to bed, sweet muse My father fain would have me take a man My love hath her true love betrayed What if I seek for love of thee? THOMAS MORLEY Absence, hear thou my protestation I saw my lady weeping It was a lover and his lass O grief! e’en on the bud RICHARD MARTIN Change thy mind since she doth change FRANCIS PILKINGTON Diaphenia Down a down, thus Phyllis sung Now let her change Rest sweet nymphs GEORGE MASON Dido was the Carthage Queen PHILIP ROSSETER If I hope I pine If she forsake me Kind in unkindness Shall I come if I swim? Sweet, come again Though far from joy What then is love but mourning When Laura smiles

The two books contain some 100 songs chosen from the definitive collections of The English Lutenists begun by Edmund Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and added to by later scholars. They include many favourites and many lesser-known songs by popular composers such as Dowland, Campion and Pilkington (no known ancestor of the compiler) as well as some unjustly forgotten such as Corkine, Attey and Ferrabosco. Nearly all are for middle-range voice, with lute parts transcribed in staff notation. The books have an appropriate preface and a commentary on the words, which often throw a penetrating light on Elizabethan and Jacobean life. CONTENTS ANONYMOUS As at noon Dulcina rested Sweet, stay awhile! JOHN ATTEY On a time the amorous Silvy JOHN BARTLET A pretty duck there was O Lord, thy faithfulness What thing is love? When from my love THOMAS CAMPION A secret love or two Author of light Beauty, since you so much desire Come you pretty false-eyed wanton Follow thy fair sun Follow your saint I must complain If love loves truth If thou long’st so much It fell on a summer’s day Love me or not My sweetest Lesbia Never love unless you can O what unhoped for sweet supply! Oft have I sigh’d The cypress curtain of the night The peaceful western wind There is a garden in her face Vain men, whose follies Veil, love, mine eyes When to her lute Corinna sings Your fair looks MICHAEL CAVENDISH Love is not blind Stay, Glycia, stay! The heart to rue Wanton, come hither! WILLIAM CORKINE He that hath no mistress Sweet Cupid Sweet, let me go! JOHN DANYEL Dost thou withdraw thy grace? I die whenas I do not see Like as the lute delights Why canst thou not? ALFONSO FERRABOSCO II Drown not with tears Fain I would Like hermit poor Unconstant love Young and simple though I am THOMAS FORD Fair sweet cruel Not full twelve years Now I see thy looks were feigned Since first I saw your face Unto the temple of thy beauty RICHARD GREAVES Ye bubbling springs ROBERT JOHNSON Dear do not your fair beauty wrong

The English Lute Song before Dowland: Volume 1, Songs from the Dallis Manuscript c. 1583 edited by Christopher Goodwin. 19 songs (16 with original or suggested texts, 3 without text), transposed where necessary for 6-course lute in G, 2 lute solos, and a lute quintet, 47 pages.

Lachrimae, Or Seaven Teares Figured In Seaven Passionate Pavans, with divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands, set forth for the Lute, Viols, or Violons, in five parts (London, [1604])