Is this a solo or a consort part?
Another piece (aka 'Doulands rounde battel galyarde') made indirectly from the Matthew Holmes Lute Books in Cambridge University Library. I have used the transcription in Poulton D, Lam B, Eds. 1995. The collected lute music of John Dowland, Edn 3. Faber Music, London. I had almost missed it, until I noticed that Tony Mizen had published a fine version for re-entrant uke. Here it is for the low-4th tuning.
Diana Poulton comments that
"it may have been played as a solo, and indeed it sounds quite well that way. On the other hand it fits very convincingly with the remaining parts in the Cambridge Consort Books."
This got me to thinking and fossicking, and I found that The Lute Society had published the Consort parts online here. All hail to them for making available something so inaccessible.
So, as well as making a transcription for uke of the lute score, I have mashed together the lute and viol parts to make a playable version with the viol line in the upper voice, and much of the lute part down below. I have, however, kept the first bar/measure of the lute part, as it sounds more like a call to arms.
DP didn't think that the piece contained much "battle material", but I'm not sure that I agree with her there. Anyway, see what you think.
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