For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland's music, renaissance lute tuning (capo on the third fret with the G string tuned to F sharp) is used throughout. The pieces progress more or less in order of increasing difficulty, and special care has been taken to be sure any group of consecutive pieces can be played with satisfying results. Standard notation only. Includes access to online audio files.

 A Fancy        
 A Fantasie        
 Captain Candishe’s Galliard        
 Captain Digorie Piper’s Galliard        
 Dowland’s First Galliard        
 Dowland’s Galliard        
 Dr Case’s Pavan        
 Earl of Essex Galliard        
 Fortune        
 Galliard (on a Galliard by Daniel Bacheler)        
 Galliard (on Walsingham)        
 Go From My Window        
 K Darcy’s Galliard        
 Lachrimae        
 Lady Laiton’s Almain        
 Melancholy Galliard        
 Mr Dowland’s Midnight        
 Mrs Clifton’s Almain        
 Mrs Vaux Galliard        
 Mrs White’s Nothing        
 Mrs White’s Thing        
 Mrs Winter’s Jump        
 My Lady Hunson’s Puffe        
 My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home        
 Preludium        
 Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard        
 Robin        
 Round Battle Galliard        
 Semper Dowland Semper Dolens        
 Sir John Smith, His Almain        
 Sir John Souch’s Galliard        
 Solus Cum Sola        
 Suzanna Galliard        
 Tarleton’s Resurrection        
 The Frog Galliard        
 The Lady Clifton’s Spirit        
 The Lady Rich’s Galliard        
 The Shoemaker’s Wife        
 What If a Day