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A beautiful melancholic piece by the 16th century English composer and musician John Dowland (1562 -1626. The piece consists of six phrases, three themes with a variation in Divisions each.

A joyful piece by the 16th century English composer and musician John Dowland (no Elizabethan melancholy for a change). The piece consists of three phrases, without a variation this time. Play it in a brisk tempo with sufficient contrast between the phrases.

Tarleton’s Resurrection is a beautiful and melancholic piece by the English grandmaster for the lute John Dowland. Much of his work is steeped in the so-called Elizabethan melancholy. Fair enough, times were hard in 16th century England. Richard Tarleton, the dedicatee of this piece, was a jester and a clown at the court of Elizabeth

Fortune my Foe is a slow brooding song about fortune’s whims and woes by the sixteenth century composer John Dowland. If you tune the third string to F#, the piece becomes easier to play. With some effort, however, the standard tuning will do.

What If A Day Or A Month Or A Year? is an Ayre, written by the English poet and composer Thomas Campion (1667 – 1620). Obviously, this song was quite popular in Campion’s time, because we know multiple arrangements of it, for instance in the Jane Pickering’s Lute Book. This arrangement was made by John