Keyboard Music

Keyboard Music by John Dowland. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. For Clavichord, virginals, harpsichord. Score. 84(xiii) pages. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers. The music of John Dowland, the greatest English lute composer of that Golden Age, circulated widely in keyboard adaptations during his lifetime, suitable for performance on harpsichord, virginals or clavichord. Thirty such arrangements and intabulations made by his contemporaries in England and mainland Europe including Byrd, Peter Philips, Ferdinando Richardson, Scheidt, Schildt, Scheidemann, Sweelinck and many anonymous settings from tablatures in Luneburg, Krakow, Stockholm, Florence, Turin, Copenhagen and elsewhere are gathered together for the first time in this collection.