Marco De Biasi plays Melancholy Galliard (Poulton No.25) by Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowland (1563-1626). This comes via his YouTube channel. Great performance here with some beautiful pacing and phrasing. De Biasi is also a composer, I performed some of his Studies (Studios) for guitar trio two years ago which are pretty cool pieces. I highly recommend checking out his compositions and work, he’s also an artist/painter, see more at his website.
Coincidentally, I just finished an edition of this piece and will be releasing it and a video myself in a week or two. It’s a lovely work but surprisingly not as easy as it sounds!
My Dowland Sheet Music and Lessons
- John Dowland (1563-1626) – Renaissance, England
- Fortune, My Foe by Dowland, Grade 6, Sheet Music or Tab
- Mr. Dowland’s Midnight by Dowland, Grade 4, Sheet Music or Tab
- Mrs. Winters Jump by Dowland, Grade 4, Free Sheet Music or Tab
- Orlando Sleepeth by Dowland, Grade 4, Sheet Music or Tab
- Tarleton’s Resurrection, Grade 6, Sheet Music or Tab
- The Round Battle Galliard, Grade 7, Sheet Music or Tab
Great performance. Really interesting to see and hear him breathing on the phrases as if he were singing the piece!
at Dowland s time this music was played with a luth liberating lhe left hand fingers most of the bass notes beeing strokes on (cordes a vide)
It was indeed played on a lute but Dowland generally played a 6 or 7 string lute so the fingering is almost exactly the same if you read the tablature faithfully and have the 3rd string tuned down to F sharp.