JOHN DOWLAND

ENGLISH LUTE SONGS

Vocal & Guitar or Lute Music Book

Twelve of the best-known songs of John Dowland, presented so that they can be sung with either lute or guitar accompaniment. With the tablature, and also with the accompaniment arranged for guitar (in normal guitar tuning), for each song.

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.