Elizabethan and Jacobean Songs

Book 2. Par PILKINGTON MICHAEL. 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./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

Par DOWLAND JOHN. Edited by Thurston Dart and Nigel Fortune 13 of the finest settings taken from John Dowland: Ayres for Four Voices, originally transcribed as Volume 6 of Musica Britannica by Edmund Fellowes. The Elizabethan and Jacobean lutesongs were often written with alternative versions for voices and lute. This volume is an introductory selection of these ‘airs’, with accompaniment which may be played on guitar or keyboard as well as lute. SATB CONTENTS Burst forth my tears By a fountain where I lay Can she excuse my wrongs Come again sweet love doth now invite Come away, come sweet love Come heavy sleep Fine knacks for ladies Go crystal tears If my complaints Now o now I needs must part Sleep wayward thoughts Sweet stay awhile Weep you no more sad fountains/ Répertoire / SATB

Book 2. Par FELLOWES E.H.. Edited by Edmund Fellowes CONTENTS ANONYMOUS: Willow Song (D - D) CAMPIAN, Thomas: Follow your saint (D - D); When to her lute Corinna sings (B - D) DOWLAND, John: Come again, sweet love doth now invite (C - D); Sleep wayward thoughts (E flat - C); Sorrow, stay (C - C) FORD, Thomas: Fair sweet cruel (D sharp - D) JONES, Robert: Now what is love (C - C) PILKINGTON, Francis: Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly (C - C) ROSSETER, Philip:/ Recueil / Chant et Piano