It is hoped to have mp3 and/or video performances of every piece thought to be by John Dowland, including different interpretations of the same piece by different performers. Song performances as well as ensemble works welcome alongside the solo repertoire. If you wish to contribute to this page, please first visit the Contributions page.
To hear the track, click on the performer's name:
TITLE |
POULTON |
Videos |
MP3 |
NOTES |
A Fantasie |
1a |
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A Fancy |
5 |
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A Fancy |
6 |
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Semper Dowland Semper Dolens |
9 |
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Solus Cum Sola |
10 |
Val: Board Lute Book |
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Lachrimae Pavan |
15 |
Val: Folger ms |
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Dowland's Galliard |
20 |
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| Capitain Candishes his Galyard |
21 |
Cambridge MS D.2.11 (B) f.56 |
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| Dowland's First Galliard | 22 |
Performance on cittern,
Dd. 4.23
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The Frog Galliard |
23 23 23a |
Song arrangement
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Galliard on 'Awake Sweet Love' |
24 |
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| Mellancoly Galliard | 25 |
Cambridge Ms Dd.2.11, f. 12 |
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| Mrs Vaux's Galliard |
32 |
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King of Denmark's Galliard |
40 |
Sylvain Bergeron and Terry McKenna (duet arrangement) |
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The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard |
41 |
Varietie of Lute Lessons |
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Can She Excuse |
42 |
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The Lady Rich's Galliard |
43 |
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The Right Honourable Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, His Galliard |
44a |
Val: Variety of Lute Lessons |
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Sir John Smith, his Almain |
47 |
Martin is here performing on a lute he made himself. | ||
| Lady Layton's Almain Bandora version |
48 |
Bandora: Browne Bandora and lyra viol manuscript |
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Mrs White's Thing or Choyce Cittern version |
50 |
Cittern version from Cambridge University Libary ms. Dd 4.23 copied by Mathew Holmes ca. 1595 |
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Lady Hunsdon's Puffe |
54 |
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Mrs Winters Jump |
55 |
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The Shoemaker's Wife |
58 |
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Tarleton's Risurrectione |
59 |
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Orlando Sleepeth |
61 |
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Fortune |
(62) |
Sylvain Bergeron and Terry McKenna (duet arrangement) |
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My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home |
66a |
One of Dowland's few duets, performed by Stewart McCoy with Martin Shepherd and Sylvain Bergeron and Terry McKenna Val: Folger MS | ||
A Dream |
75 |
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A Piece Without Title | 78 |
Valery:
Euing lute book (f.26) Glasgow. Here the piece is played 5 time with some variations. First is the original, then my own variations, then variations from Jakob Lindberg's interpretation, then variations from Pascale Boquet's interpretation, then back to the original. |
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What if a day |
79 |
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A Coy Joy |
80 |
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Hasellwood's Galliard |
84 |
Martin: 'Could this (Holborne's piece?) have been the inspiration for "My thoughts are winged with hopes" or "If my complaints"? It starts like one and ends like the other! |
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The Frog Galliard |
90 |
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An Almand |
96 |
See Martin's discussion of this piece in his essay on Ornamentation in Dowland |
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Preludium |
98 |
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Mr Dowland's Midnight |
99 |
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Dowland's Adew To Master Oliver Cromwell |
2nd Book of Songs |
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