minstrel: Dowland for guitar

[Tadhg O Cuileannain]

David Nadal has transcribed Dowland's First and Second
Books for guitar (with tablature for 7-course lute):

Lute Songs of John Dowland; transcribed for voice and
guitar by David Nadal, Dover Publications 1997, ISBN
0-486-29935-X.

Tadhg

--- Frederick Joseph Ross
<fjr6b at cms.mail.virginia.edu> wrote:
> For someone just leaping in, if you have any skill
> with your fingers, then
> Dowland's lute songs can be performed without too
> much trouble on guitar.
> You'll have to do the transcription from either the
> lute notation or a
> piano score to guitar, and it will require a modicum
> of ingenuity in
> places, but no one will call you down for playing
> Dowland.
> 
> Flow My Tears transcribes especially easily to
> transcribe.  If you take a
> piano score and remember that the guitar is read an
> octave up from where
> it really is (i.e., play everything on the score an
> octave up), you can
> play every note on the score comfortably.  It
> requires some rehearsal,
> though.  I had the sheet music of my transcription,
> but my parents swappe
> dsome computers around and formatted some hard
> drives while I was at
> school and I lost the file.  A full score for piano
> or lute plus voice is
> available from
> http://www.laymusic.org/music/dowland/flow/score.pdf
> 
> Mutopia has the first book of songs and ayres at
>
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/make-table.cgi?Composer=DowlandJ
> 
> The Werner Icking archive is a wonderful resource
> http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/
> 
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> 
> > Now that that is covered, what do you recomend
> that I play (when I do bring
> > my guitar)?  I would prefer to find songs
> available online, if they exist.
> > Thanks ahead of time again.
> 
> 
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