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Non members: £10 View John Dowland, Eight Lute Songs or Duets, from the Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) edited by Cedric Lee from Green Man publications. Here are some of Dowland’s most famous songs, including ‘Flow my tears’ and ‘I saw my lady weep’ which remarkably have not been published before in a performing edition with fully texted bass part, as they clearly appear in the original source. This edition provides fascicles or partbooks for every combination of forces: a score for treble and bass voices with piano transcription, treble voice and lute tablature, plus duplicate, bass voice and lute tablature (in case the lute player also sings bass!), and separate bass viol part. Members: £12 Non members: £12 View Frottole edited by Ian Gaskell. Five songs by Tromboncino, Cara and Josquin dâAscanio, clearly presented in a score, three partbooks for alto, tenor and bass viols, and partbooks for voice and for lute, allowing performance with either lute, viol consort, or both; 40 + 20 + 20 + 12 + 12 + 12 pp; Members: £10 Non members: £15 Songs with easy continuo Back to Index View Getting to First Bass, Baroque songs with easy continuo accompaniment. An anthology of 20 attractive and very approachable songs by Henry Lawes, Caccini, Lanier, Ives, Lully, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Battaille and other composers, in easy keys, with figured bass, beautifully presented in clear, readable type, with no page turns, translations of foreign texts, and a short introduction to the basics of playing continuo.  40 pp. Members: £12 Non members: £12 View John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (1659/60) This new edition by Matthew Spring of 69 charming, short and easy songs by a famous 17th century lutenist provides a perfect, gentle introduction to playing from a bass line (with figures added by the editor). These versatile songs (some from Shakespeare plays) can be performed by one, two or three singers or instruments (two trebles and a bass) or indeed for three voices without lute. A PDF of tablature accompaniments of 20 of the easiest songs is also available on request for those who don’t want to attempt playing from the bass line. Two volumes, one for solo performance and one for thee voices, xxii + 80pp, iv + 140pp. Members: £20 Non members: £25 Contemporary Lute Songs Back to Index View Songs in Divers Humours
