The first booke of songs or ayres of foure parts, with tableture for the lute
Subtitle: so made, that all the parts together, or either of them severally, may be sung to the lute, orpherian, or viol de gambo
By: John Dowland
Series: Performers' Facsimiles -- 127; Performers' Facsimiles (Series) -- 127.
Publisher: Performers' Facsimiles
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Songs with lute; Early works to 1800; Music; Ayres; Galliards
Work titles: Songs or ayres, 1st book
Notes: For voice (cantus) and lute (in tablature), with altus, tenor, and bassus parts on confronting pages.

Facsim. of the edition originally published: London : Humfrey Lownes, 1613.

Originally published in 1597. "The 1613 edition has been reproduced here because it incorporates authorial revisions"--Publisher's note.

Reproduced from the copy in the British Library, London.

The final selection ("My Lord Chamberlaine his galliard") is instrumental.
Table of contents: title: Unquiet thoughts; title: Who ever thinkes or hopes of love for love; title: My thoughts are wingd with hopes; title: If my complaints could passions move; title: Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake; title: Now, O now I needs must part; title: Deare if you change Ile never chuse againe; title: Burst forth my teares; title: Goe crystall teares; title: Thinkst thou then by thy fayning; title: Come away, come sweet love; title: Rest a while you cruell cares; title: Sleep wayward thoughts; title: All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayd; title: Wilt thou unkinde thus reave me of my heart?; title: Would my conceit that first enforst my woe; title: Come againe, sweet love doth now invite; title: His golden locks time hath to silver turnd; title: Awake sweet love thou art returnd; title: Come heavy sleepe; title: Away with these self-loving lads; title: A galliard for two to play upon one lute at the end of the booke.