John Dowland
48 guitar works by John Dowland (1563-1626) appear in the Guitar Events repertoire database. Typical performance times run from about a minute for The Shoemaker's Wife to about 7 minutes for Farewell Fantasy (P. 3). None of the timed pieces reaches eight minutes — 27 stay under three, encore territory. The list takes in 6 fantasias and 3 dances. Recordings are linked for 14 of the 48 works.
Each work below links to a recording and, where available, a free score — hear a piece before committing it to your programme, then match it against competition requirements in the finder.
Guitar works
- A Dream 5:05 Sheet music CD
- A Fancy (P. 5) 4:00 Sheet music CD
- A Fancy (P. 6) 5:30 Sheet music CD
- A Fancy (P. 7) 4:45 Sheet music CD
- A Fancy (P. 73) 3:00 Sheet music CD
- Can She Excuse My Wrongs (arr. solo) 2:45 Listen Sheet music CD
- Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard (P. 19) 2:30 Listen Sheet music CD
- Come Again (arr. lute solo) 3:00 Sheet music CD
- Come Heavy Sleep (arr. lute solo) 3:30 Sheet music CD
- Fantasia in G major (P. 73) "Tremolo" 3:27 Sheet music CD
- Fantasie No. 1 (P. 1) 4:27 Sheet music CD
- Fantasie No. 5 (P. 5) 2:37 Sheet music CD
- Fantasie No. 6 (P. 6) 3:00 Sheet music CD
- Fantasie No. 7 (P. 7) 5:01 Sheet music CD
- Farewell (In Nomine) (P. 4) 4:33 Sheet music CD
- Farewell Fantasy (P. 3) 7:00 Sheet music CD
- Flow My Tears (arr. lute solo) 4:00 Listen Sheet music CD
- Forlorn Hope Fancy (P. 2) 6:00 Listen Sheet music CD
- Galliard to Lachrimae (P. 46) 2:30 Sheet music CD
- In Darkness Let Me Dwell (arr. lute solo) 4:15 Listen Sheet music CD
- Lachrimae Pavan (P. 15) 5:30 Sheet music CD
- Lady Clifton's Spirit (P. 45) 1:48 Sheet music CD
- Lady Laiton's Almain (P. 48) 2:15 Sheet music CD
- Lord Strange's March (P. 65) 1:37 Sheet music CD
- Melancholy Galliard (P. 25) 2:45 Listen Sheet music CD
- Mr Dowland's Midnight (P. 99) 1:55 Sheet music CD
- Mrs Nichols' Almain (P. 52) 1:33 Sheet music CD
- Mrs Vaux's Galliard (P. 32) 2:27 Sheet music CD
- Mrs Vaux's Jig (P. 57) 1:15 Listen Sheet music CD
- Mrs White's Nothing (P. 56) 1:18 Listen Sheet music CD
- Mrs White's Thing (P. 50) 2:13 Sheet music CD
- Mrs. Winter's Jump (P. 55) 1:30 Listen Sheet music CD
- My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (P. 54) 1:45 Sheet music CD
- Orlando Sleepeth 2:54 Listen Sheet music CD
- Orlando Sleepeth (P. 61) 2:00 Listen Sheet music CD
- Pavan (P. 14) 4:30 Sheet music CD
- Pavan (P. 16) 5:00 Sheet music CD
- Queen Elizabeth's Galliard (P. 41) 2:30 Sheet music CD
- Resolution (P. 66) 2:00 Sheet music CD
- Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (P. 9) 4:30 Listen Sheet music CD
- Sir John Smith's Almain (P. 47) 2:00 Sheet music CD
- Tarleton's Resurrection (P. 59) 1:45 Listen Sheet music CD
- Tarleton's Riserrectione 2:55 Sheet music CD
- The Earl of Essex Galliard (P. 42) 2:45 Sheet music CD
- The Frog Galliard (P. 23) 2:15 Sheet music CD
- The King of Denmark's Galliard (P. 40) 3:00 Listen Sheet music CD
- The Shoemaker's Wife 1:11 Sheet music CD
- The Shoemaker's Wife (P. 58) 1:30 Sheet music CD
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