The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires John Dowland
The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires
London 1603
Transcribed and edited by Alain Veylit
Newly composed to sing to the lute, orpharion, or viols, and a dialogue for a base and meane Lute with 5 voices to sing thereto.
- 2025, June 10 at 01:52
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21 Sections
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Farewell, too fair for my admiring
Third book of ayres (1603), #1.
- 6/2
- half note=80 (Andante)
- C[0b]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
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Time stands still
Third book of ayres (1603), #2.
- 6/2
- half note=80 (Andante)
- G[1#]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
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Behold a wonder here
Third book of ayres (1603), #3.
- 6/2
- quarter note=120 (Andante)
- G[1#]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
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Daphne was not so chaste
Third book of ayres (1603), #4.
- 3/2
- half note=60 (Andante)
- F[1b]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
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Me, me, and none but me
Third book of ayres (1603), #5.
- 6/2
- quarter note=120 (Andante)
- C[0b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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When Phoebus first did Daphne love
Third book of ayres (1603), #6.
- 6/4
- quarter note=138 (Andante)
- C[0b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
Third book of ayres (1603), #7.
- 4/2
- half note=64 (Andante)
- G[1#]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Flow not so fast, ye fountains
Third book of ayres (1603), #8.
- 4/2
- half note=90 (Andante)
- Cm[3b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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What if I never speed? Third book of ayres (1603), #9
What if I never speed?
Third book of ayres (1603), #9
- 4/2
- half note=50 (Andante)
- Am[0b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Love stood amazed
Third book of ayres (1603), #10.
- 4/2
- half note=60 (Andante)
- Gm[2b]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
- Bassus
- Lute
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Lend your ears to my sorrow
Third book of ayres (1603), #11.
- 4/2
- half note=40 (Andante)
- Am[0b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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By a fountain where I lay
Third book of ayres (1603), #12.
- 2/2
- half note=56 (Andante)
- Gm[1b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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O what hath overwrought
Third book of ayres (1603), #13.
- 2/2
- half note=58 (Andante)
- Bb[1b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Farewell, unkind!
Third book of ayres (1603), #14.
- 4/2
- half note=60 (Andante)
- G[1#]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Weep you no more, sad fountains
Third book of ayres (1603), #15.
- 4/2
- half note=50 (Andante)
- Gm[2b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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Fie on this feigning!
Third book of ayres (1603), #16.
- 2/2
- half note=70 (Andante)
- F[1b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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I must complain
Third book of ayres (1603), #17. Words by Thomas Campion
- 4/2
- half note=70 (Andante)
- Gm[2b]
- Cantus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute
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It was a time when silly bees could speak John Dowland Third book of ayres (1603), #18. Words ascribed to Robert, Earl of Essex
It was a time when silly bees could speak
Third book of ayres (1603), #18. Words ascribed to Robert, Earl of Essex
- 4/2
- half note=70 (Andante)
- Dm[1b]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
- Bassus
- Lute
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The lowest trees have tops John Dowland Third book of ayres (1603), #19. Words ascribed to Sir Edward Dyer
The lowest trees have tops
Third book of ayres (1603), #19. Words ascribed to Sir Edward Dyer
- 4/2
- half note=65 (Andante)
- Gm[2b]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
- Bassus
- Lute
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What poor astronomers are they
Third book of ayres (1603), #20.
- 4/2
- half note=60 (Andante)
- G[1#]
- Cantus
- instrument
- instrument
- Bassus
- Lute
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Come when I call (a dialogue)
Third book of ayres (1603), #21.
- 4/2
- half note=60 (Andante)
- F[1b]
- Cantus
- Quintus
- Altus
- Tenor
- Bassus
- Lute in G
- Lute in D