- A lively dance
Arranged for ukulele from the transcription in Poulton D, Lam B, Eds, 1995, The collected lute music of John Dowland, Edn 3. Faber Music, London. The original is in the Margaret Board Lute Book, f. 13, c. 1620, a didactic MS.
Margaret Board was taught by Dowland and must have been a pretty good player.
I have included the original indications of RH fingering and of graces (relishes) from the transcription of the MS. I have described the Renaissance fingering convention here .
For the grace symbols I have replaced the original dot with a ⸰ because there are so many other dots. The kinds of grace referred to by the symbols are, however, uncertain.
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| The first two lines of the piece in the Board Lute Book, showing the fingerings and graces. |
It's an attractive little piece, which Nigel North plays at a cracking 80 bpm. Good luck!
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