This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
Book Title: Second Book of Airs
Author: John Dowland (1563-1626)
Editor: Edmund Fellowes (1870-1951)
Publisher: Stainer & Bell
Copyright: 1922
Google Books has Dowland’s Second Book of Airs, Part 1 and Part 2 available for download.
Contents, Part 1:
- I saw my lady weep
- Flow, my tears
- Sorrow, stay
- Die not before thy day
- Mourn! Day is with darkness fled
- Time’s eldest son, Old Age (first part)
- Then sit thee down and say (second part)
- When others sing Venite (third part)
- Praise blindness, eyes
- O sweet woods
Contents, Part 2:
- If floods of tears
- Fine knacks for ladies
- Now cease, my wandering eyes
- Come ye heavy states of night
- White as lilies was her face
- Woeful heart
- A shepherd in a shade
- Faction that ever dwells
- Shall I sue?
- Toss not my soul
- Clear or cloudy
- Humour, say what mak’st thou here?
Note: I have posted a few of these songs already, but only the versions in which the lute tabulature was transcribed. I encourage performers to avoid the versions with rewritten accompaniments.
