Composition: The Firste Booke of Songes (Dowland, John)
| Title | The First Booke of Songes |
| Creators | John Dowland (composer) |
| Opus | |
| Instrumentation | voice and lute 4 voices and lute voice, lute and viol voice and viol lute |
| Number of movements | 21 |
| Keys | — |
| Composed | — |
| First published | 1597 |
| Dedication | Sir George Carey, Baron of Hunsdon |
| Tempo markings | — |
| Metronome markings | — |
| Time signatures | — |
| Average duration (sec) | — |
| Number of measures | — |
| Composition types | Songs, Airs, Galliards |
| Language | English |
| Period | Renaissance |
| View on IMSLP |  |
| Code |  |
Sections
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Arrangements
| Details | Section | Arranged for | Arranger |
|---|---|---|---|
| view | Selections | 4 recorders 5 recorders |
Jaap Wiebes |
| view | Selections | — | Frederick Keel |
| view | Selections | voice and piano | David Siebert |
Scores
| Details | Section | Type | Publisher | Date | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| view | Complete | — | Peter Short | — | Complete Partbook · view |
| view | Complete | — | Peter Short | — | Complete Book (table format) · view |
| view | Complete | — | London: Humphrey Lownes | 1606 | Complete Book (table format) · view |
| view | Complete | — | London: Humphrey Lownes | 1613 | Complete Book (table format) · view |
| view | Complete | — | Musical Antiquarian Society | — | Complete Book · view Introduction and Contents · view Scores · view |
| view | Complete | — | — | — | 1. Unquiet Thoughts · view 2. Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love · view 3. My thoughts are wing'd · view 4. If my complaints could passions move · view 5. Can she excuse my wrongs · view 6. Now o now I needs must part · view 7. Dear, if you change · view 8. Burst forth, my tears · view 9. Go, crystal tears · view 10. Thinkst thou then by thy feigning · view 11. Come away, come sweet love · view 12. Rest a while, you cruel cares · view 13. Sleep, wayward thoughts · view 14. All ye, whom love or fortune hath betray'd · view 15. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me · view 16. Would my conceit that first enforc'd my woe · view 17. Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now Invite · view 18. His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd · view 19. Awake, sweet love, thou art return'd · view 20. Come, heavy sleep · view 21. Away with these self-loving lads · view Engraving files (Capella) · view |
| view | Complete | — | Mutopia | — | 1. Unquiet Thoughts Your Civil Slaughter Stint · view |
| view | Complete | — | — | — | 5. Can she excuse my wrongs with virtues cloak · view |
| view | Complete | — | — | — | 9. Go crystal tears · view |
| view | Complete | Arrangement for 4 recorders 5 recorders |
— | — | 17. Come again: sweet love doth now invite · view 11. Come away, come sweet love · view 13. Sleep, wayward thoughts · view |
| view | Complete | Arrangement |
Boosey & Hawkes | — | Title, Index, Preface · view 7. Deare, if you change · view 17. Come again · view |
| view | Complete | Arrangement for voice and piano |
— | — | 1. Unquiet Thoughts · view 2. Whoever Thinks, or Hopes of Love · view 5. Can She Excuse My Wrongs · view 11. Come Away, Come Sweet Love · view 17. Come Again, Sweet Love · view 20. Come, Heavy Sleep · view |
Recordings/Performances
| Details | Type | Performers | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| view | Synthesized | Jeni Melia (soprano) and Chris Goodwin (lute) | 17. Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now Invite · file |
| view | Synthesized | 1. Unquiet thoughts · file 2. Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love · file 3. My thoughts are wing'd · file 4. If my complaints could passions move · file 5. Can she excuse my wrongs · file 6. Now o now I needs must part · file 7. Dear, if you change · file 8. Burst forth my tears · file 9. Go crystal tears · file 10. Thinkst thou then by thy feigning · file 11. Come away, come sweet love · file 12. Rest a while you cruel cares · file 13. Sleep wayward thoughts · file 14. All ye whom love or fortune hath betray'd · file 15. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me · file 16. Would my conceit that first enforc'd my woe · file 17. Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now Invite · file 18. His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd · file 19. Awake sweet love thou art return'd · file 20. Come heavy sleep · file 21. Away with these self-loving lads · file |
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