The Lute Appendix iv
Assembled while researching my articles on John Dowland for this series, which begin here.
I found that taking time to put these pages together helped me to read what Dowland wrote more closely.
These surviving texts are found mostly in the prefatory material to Dowland’s own publications. I have not changed or modernized Dowland’s spelling or otherwise attempted to make any of this more clear – they are as much as possible, literally “his own words” as he chose to order and spell them. The texts are ordered chronologically.
Of course, a lot about Dowland’s attitude and personality may also be gleaned from the texts of his songs, at least some of which he likely wrote himself…
iv a ~ November 10, 1595
letter from John Dowland to Sir Robert Cecil
read David Pinto’s excellent critical hypertext edition here
iv b ~ 1597
The First Booke of Songes or Ayres
(dedication, “To the courteous Reader”)
iv c ~ 1600
The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
iv d ~ 1603
The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires
(dedication, “The Epistle to the Reader”)
iv e ~ 1604
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
(dedication, “To the Reader.”)
iv f ~ 1609
Andreas Ornithoparvs His Micrologvs
(dedication, “To the Reader.”)
iv g ~ 1610
A Varietie of Lute Lessons
Other Necessary Obseruations belonging to the Lute
(in preparation)
iv h ~ 1612
A Pilgrimes Solace
dedication and preface
(in preparation)
* * *
The Lute:
I ~ Meet the Lute
II ~ Francesco da Milano
III ~ The Medieval Lute
IV ~ Petrarch’s Lyre
V ~ Renaissance Lute
VI ~ Baroque Lute (coming soon)
VII ~ Ottaviano Petrucci and the First Printed Lute Books
VIII ~ The Frottolists and the First Lute Songbooks
X ~ Music Printer to the King: Pierre Attaingnant
XII ~ The Lute at the Court of Henry VIII
XIII ~ The Golden Age of English Lute Music
XIV ~ “To Attain So Excellent A Science”: John Dowland, Part I
XV ~ “I Desired To Get Beyond The Seas”: John Dowland, Part II
XVI ~ “An Earnest Desire To Satisfie All”: John Dowland, Part III (coming soon)
XVII ~ Simone Molinaro
XVIII ~ Diana Poulton
Appendices:
iii ~ Lute Recordings:
a ~ Dowland on CD: A Survey of the Solo Lute Recordings: Part I
b ~ Dowland on CD: A Survey of the Solo Lute Recordings: Part II
c ~ Bach on the Lute: 70 Years of Recordings, Part I
d ~ Bach on the Lute: 70 Years of Recordings, Part II (coming soon)
iv ~ John Dowland In His Own Words
v ~ The Lute Society of America Summer Seminar West, 1996
Walter Bitner 