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Where to start with Dowland
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
ChamberLachrimae, for lute, P.15
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Vocal1.Disdain me still
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Vocal1.Farewell, too fair
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Vocal1.I saw my Lady weep
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Chamber1.Lachrimae antiquae
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Vocal1.Unquiet thoughts
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Vocal10.From silent night
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Vocal10.Love stood amazed
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Chamber10.Mr John Langtons Pavan
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Vocal10.O sweet woods
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Vocal10.Think'st thou then by thy feigning
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Vocal11.Come away, come sweet love
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Vocal11.If floods of tears
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Vocal11.Lasso vita mia
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Vocal11.Lend your ears to my sorrow
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Dowland's catalogueMost Popular
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Flow My Tears (Lachrymae)
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Come Again, Sweet Love
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Can She Excuse My Wrongs
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Now O Now I Needs Must Part
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Fine Knacks for Ladies
Most Acclaimed
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Lachrimae, or Seven Tears7 fantasias for 5 viols + lute on the Lachrymae theme
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In Darkness Let Me Dwell
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Come, Heavy Sleep
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A Fancy for Lute (P 5)
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Forlorn Hope Fancy
Most Weird
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In Darkness Let Me Dwellthe most chromatic, harmonically disturbing piece of the early 17th century — it sounds like late Schubert
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Semper Dowland semper dolensAlways Dowland, always grieving — he turned his own depression into a brand
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Farewell Fancy (Mistress Nichols\’ Almand)
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Sir Henry Unton\’s Funeralnamed for an actual diplomat\’s death — programmatic
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Lachrimae Antiquae Novaefrom Lachrimae — the theme inverted and transformed
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 239
- Chamber
- Lachrimae, for lute, P.15
- 1.Lachrimae antiquae
- 10.Mr John Langtons Pavan
- 11.The King of Denmark's Galliard
- 12.The Earl of Essex Galliard
- 13.Sir John Souch his Galliard
- 14.Mr Henry Noel his Galliard
- 15.Mr Giles Hobies Galliard
- 16.Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard
- 17.Mr Thomas Collier his Galliard
- 18.Captain Piper his Galliard
- 19.Mr Bucton's Galliard
- 2.Lachrimae antiquae novae
- 20.Mistress Nichols Almand
- 21.Mr George Whitehead his Almand
- 3.Lachrimae gementes
- 4.Lachrimae tristes
- 5.Lachrimae coactae
- 6.Lachrimae amantis
- 7.Lachrimae verae
- 8.Semper Dowland semper dolens
- 9.Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral
- A Fancy, for lute
- A piece without title, P.51
- Almain a2, for consort duo
- Almain, P.49
- Almain, P.51
- Almain, P.96
- Aloe, ballad setting, P.68
- Bonny sweet Robin, ballad setting, P.70
- Can she excuse, P.42, "The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard"
- Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P.19
- Captain Piper's Pavan and Galliard, for consort
- Complaint, P.63
- Complaint, ballad setting, P.63
- Coranto, P.100
- Dowland's Almain
- Dowland's Galliard, P.20
- Dowlands Adieu for Master Cromwell, for viol and lute, P.13
- Dr. Case's Pavan, P.12
- Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P.89
- Fantasia in D minor, P.5
- Fantasia in G major, P.1
- Fantasia in G minor, P.6
- Fantasie in G minor, P.7
- Farewell Fancy: Chromatic fantasia, P.3
- Farewell: Fantasie on 'In nomine', P.4
- Forlorn Hope: Fantasie, P.2
- Fortune My Foe, P.62
- Frog Galliard, P.23
- Galliard
- Galliard a5
- Galliard in C minor, P.28
- Galliard in C minor, P.35
- Galliard in D minor, P.20
- Galliard in F minor, P.27
- Galliard in G minor, P.104
- Galliard in G minor, P.22, "Dowland's First"
- Galliard in G minor, P.30
- Galliard in G minor, P.31, "Walsingham"
- Galliard to Lachrimae, P.46
- Galliard, in D major, P.24
- Go from my window, P.64
- In a Grove Most Rich of Shade
- John Dowland's Galliard, P.21
- K. Darcy's Spirit, P.45
- Katherine Darcy's Galliard, for lute
- King of Denmark's Galliard, P.40
- La mia Barbara, P.95
- Lachrimae Pavan
- Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, Almain, P.54
- Lady Laiton's Almain, P.48
- Lady Rich's Galliard, P.43a, "Dowland's Bells"
- Lord Strang's March, P.65
- Loth to depart, P.69
- Melancholy Galliard, P.25
- Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth's Galliard, P.41
- Mr. Bucton's Galliard
- Mr. Dowland's Midnight, Almain, P.99
- Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard, P.29
- Mr. Knight's Galliard, P.36
- Mr. Langton's Galliard, P.33
- Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan, P.11
- Mrs. Clifton's Almain, P.53
- Mrs. Nichol's Almain, P.52
- Mrs. Vaux Galliard, P.32
- Mrs. Vaux's Jig, P.57
- Mrs. White's Nothing, P.56
- Mrs. White's Thing, Almain, P.50
- Mrs. Winters Jump, P.55
- My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, for lute
- My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard, P.37
- My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, P.66
- Orlando Sleepeth, P.61
- Pavan Mylius, "Thesaurus gratiarum"
- Pavan a4 for viol consort
- Pavan in C minor, P.94
- Pavan in G minor, P.16
- Pavan in G minor, P.18
- Pavana Lachrimae
- Piper's Pavan, P.8
- Preludium, for lute, P.98
- Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P.97, "The Queen's Galliard"
- Resolution, P.13
- Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, his Galliard, P.44
- Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lisle, P.38
- Round Battle Galliard, P.39
- Semi Dolens
- Semper Dowland semper dolens, P.9
- Shoemaker's Wife, a Toy, P.58
- Sir Henry Guilford his Almain
- Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
- Sir John Smith, his Almain, P.47
- Solus cum sola, P.10
- Squires Galliard
- Susanna Fair, for viol consort
- Suzanna Galliard, P.91
- Tarleton's Resurrection, P.59
- The Earle of Essex Galliard, for 5 viols/violins and lute
- The First Galliard, for lute
- The Lady Russell's Pavan, P.17
- Volta, Allemande for 4 viols and continuo, P.27
- Von Gott will ich nicht lassen
- Walsingham, P.67
- Vocal
- 1.Disdain me still
- 1.Farewell, too fair
- 1.I saw my Lady weep
- 1.Unquiet thoughts
- 10.From silent night
- 10.Love stood amazed
- 10.O sweet woods
- 10.Think'st thou then by thy feigning
- 11.Come away, come sweet love
- 11.If floods of tears
- 11.Lasso vita mia
- 11.Lend your ears to my sorrow
- 12.By a fountain where I lay
- 12.Fine knacks for ladies
- 12.In this trembling shadow cast
- 12.Rest awhile, you cruel cares
- 13.If that a sinner's sighs
- 13.Now cease my wand'ring eyes
- 13.O what hath overwrought
- 13.Sleep, wayward thoughts
- 14.All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd
- 14.Come ye heavy states of night
- 14.Farewell, unkind
- 14.Thou mighty God
- 15.Weep you no more, sad fountains
- 15.When David's life
- 15.White as lilies was her face
- 15.Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
- 16.Fie on this feigning!
- 16.When the poor cripple
- 16.Woeful heart
- 16.Would my conceit
- 17.A shepherd in a shade
- 17.Come again, sweet love doth now invite
- 17.I must complain
- 17.Where sin sore wounding
- 18.Faction that ever dwells
- 18.His golden locks Time has to silver turned
- 18.It was a Time when silly bees
- 18.My heart and tongue were twins
- 19.Awake, sweet love
- 19.Shall I sue
- 19.The lowest trees have tops
- 19.Up merry mates
- 2.Flow my tears
- 2.Sweet stay awhile
- 2.Time stands still
- 2.Who ever thinks or hopes of love
- 20.Come, heavy Sleep
- 20.Toss not my soul
- 20.Welcome black Night
- 20.What poor astronomers are they
- 21.Away with these self-loving lads
- 21.Cease, cease these false sports
- 21.Clear or cloudy
- 21.Come when I call
- 22.Humour say what mak'st thou here
- 3.Behold a wonder here
- 3.My thoughts are wing'd with hopes
- 3.Sorrow, stay
- 3.To ask for all thy love
- 4.Daphne was not so chaste
- 4.Die not before thy day
- 4.If my complaints could passions move
- 4.Love, those beams that breed
- 5.Can she excuse my wrongs
- 5.Me, me, and none but me
- 5.Mourn, mourn, Day is with darkness fled
- 5.Shall I strive with words to move?
- 6.Now, O now, I needs must part
- 6.Time's eldest son
- 6.Were every thought an eye
- 6.When Phoebus first did Daphne love
- 7.Dear, if you change
- 7.Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
- 7.Stay, Time, awhile thy flying
- 7.Then sit thee down
- 8.Burst forth my tears
- 8.Flow not so fast, ye fountains
- 8.Tell me, true Love
- 8.When others sing Venite
- 9.Go crystal tears
- 9.Go nightly cares
- 9.Praise blindness eyes
- 9.What if I never speed?
- A Fancy, for voice and lute
- A Prayer for the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, for voices, viols and organ
- An heart that's broken and contrite, sacred song for 4 voices and mixed consort
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite, for 4 voices and lute
- Come, heavy sleep, for 4 voices and lute
- Complaint
- Far from the triumphing court
- Fine knacks for ladies, for 4 voices and lute
- Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices and lute
- From silent night, for voice and lute
- Galliard to Lachrimae
- Go, my flock, go get you hence, for voice and orpharion
- I shame at mine unworthiness
- If my complaints could passions move, for 4 voices and lute
- In a grove most rich of shade
- In darkness let me dwell
- It was a time when silly bees could speak, for 4 voices and lute
- Lady if you so spite me
- Lamentatio Henrici Noel
- Lasso, vita mia, for voice and lute
- Now and Now
- O dear life, when shall it be
- O eyes, leave off your weeping
- Psalm 100: All people that on earth do dwell
- Psalm 100: All people that on earth do dwell, for countertenor, 3 viols and organ
- Psalm 104: My soul praise the Lord
- Psalm 130: Lord to thee I make my moan, for tenor and organ
- Psalm 134: Behold and have regard
- Psalm 38: Put me not to rebuke O Lord
- Sorrow, come!, sacred song for soprano and 4 viols