John Dowland wurde 1563, vermutlich in London, in eine Zeit geboren, die als das "Elisabethanische Zeitalter" in die Geschichte einging.
Queen Elisabeth I. regierte in England und führte das British Empire zur Zeit seiner grössten Machtentfaltung und kulturellen Blüte.
William Shakespeare war ein Zeitgenosse Dowlands und inspirierte ihn bei der Entwicklung der lyrischen Form des Lautenliedes, die Dowland zu einem künstlerischen Höhepunkt führte.
Er war bei seinen Zeitgenossen gleichermassen als Komponist und Interpret seiner Werke berühmt, und sein umfangreiches Werk für die Laute bezeugt, das er auch nach heutigen Masstäben ein hervorragender Instrumentalist gewesen sein muss.
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Fantasies
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A Fantasie (1)
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Pdf / Faksimile
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A Fantasie (2)
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Forlorn Hope Fancy
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Farewell
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Farewell (An "In Nomine")
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A Fancy (1)
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A Fancy (2)
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A Fancy (3)
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Pavans
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Piper's Pavan
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Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
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Solus Cum Sola
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Mrs. Brigide Fleedwood's Pavan alias Solus Sine Sola
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Dr. Case's Pavan
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Resulution
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Mr. John Langton's Pavan
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Sir John Langton's Pavan
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Lachrimæ online bestellen.
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Faksimile
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A Pavan (1)
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The Lady Russell's Pavan
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A Pavan (2)
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Galliards
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Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
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Dowland's Galliard
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John Dowland's Galliard
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Dowland's First Galliard
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The Frog Galliard (1)
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Faksimile
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The Frog Galliard (2)
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Galliard
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Melancholy Galliard
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Sir John Souch's Galliard
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A Galliard (1)
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A Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel Bacheler)
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Giles Hobie's Galliard
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A Galliard (2)
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A Galliard (on Walsingham)
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Mrs. Vaux Galliard
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Mr.Langton's Galliard
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Mignarda
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A Galliard (3)
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Mr. Knight's Galliard
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My John Chamberlain, His Galliard (an invention for two to play upon one lute)
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The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
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Round Battle Galliard
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The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, His Galliard
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Faksimile
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The Most Sacred Quenn Elizabeth, Her Galliard
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Can She Excuse
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Faksimile
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The Right Honourable Robert Earl of Essex, His Galliard
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The Lady Rich's Galliard
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The Right Honourable The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
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The Earl of Derby's Galliard
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The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, His Galliard
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The Right Honourable The Lady Clifton's Spirit
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Galliard to Lachrimæ
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Almains
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Sir John Smith, His Almain
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Faksimile
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Smythes Almain
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Lady Laiton's Almain (1)
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Faksimile
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Lady Laiton's Almain (2)
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An Almain
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Mrs. Withe's Thing
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A Piece Without Title
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Mrs. Nichols' Almain
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Lady Hudson`s Almande
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Faksimile
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Mrs. Clifton's Almain
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Faksimile
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Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
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Jigs and other pieces in 6/8 rhythm
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Mrs. Winter's Jump
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Mrs. Withe's Nothing
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Mrs.Vaux's Jig
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The Shoemaker's Wife
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Tarleton's Riserrection
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Song Arrangements
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Come Away
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Settings of Ballad Tunes
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Orlando Sleepeth
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Fortune
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Complaint
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Go From My Window
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Lord Strang's March
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My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (1)
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Faksimile
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My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (2)
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Walsingham
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Aloe
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Loth to Depart
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Robin
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Faksimile
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Lieder
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First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597)
online bestellen.
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Unquiet thoughts
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Faksimile
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Who ever thinks or hopes of love
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My thoughts are wing'd with hopes
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If my complaints
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Can she excuse my wrongs
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Now, O now, I needs must part
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Dear, if you change
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Burst forth my tears
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Go crystal tears
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Think'st thou then by thy feigning
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Come away, come sweet love
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Rest awhile, you cruel cares
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Sleep, wayward thoughts
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All ye, whom Love or Fortune
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Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
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Would my conceit
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Come again : sweet love doth now invite
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His golden locks
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Awake, sweet love
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Come, heavy sleep
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Away with these self-loving lads
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Second Booke of Songes or Ayres (1600)
online bestellen
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I saw my Lady weep
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Flow my tears
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Sorrow, stay
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Die not before thy day
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Mourn, mourn, Day is with darkness fled
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Time's eldest son
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Then sit thee down
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When others sing Venite
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Praise blindness eyes
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O sweet woods
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If floods of tears
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Fine knacks for ladies
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Now cease my wand'ring eyes
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Come ye heavy states of night
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White as lilies was her face
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Woeful heart
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A shepherd in a shade
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Faction that ever dwells
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Shall I sue
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Toss not my soul
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Clear or cloudy
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Humour say what mak'st thou here
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Third Booke of Songes or Ayres (1603)
online bestellen.
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Fairwell, too fair
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Time stands still
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Behold a wonder here
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Daphne was not so chaste
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Me, me, and none but me
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When Phoebus first did Daphne love
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Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
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Fow not so fast, ye fountains
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What if I never speed?
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Love stood amazed
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Lend your ears to my sorrow
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By a fountain where I lay
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O what hath overrought
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Farewell, unkind
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Weep you no more, sad fountains
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Fie on this feigning!
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I must complain
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It was a Time when silly bees
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The lowest trees have tops
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What poor astronomers are they
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Come when I call
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