John Dowland "Weep You No more Sad Fountains" Paul Agnew

"Weep you no more sad fountains"
In The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires. Composed to sing to the Lute

Composer: John Dowland

Biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dowland
http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Dowland.html

Score:

for high voice: http://www.schubertline.co.uk/Scorchshop/cgi-bin/showscore.pl?dowlandweepa.sco

for medium voice: http://www.schubertline.co.uk/Scorchshop/cgi-bin/showscore.pl?dowlandweepb.sco

Many thanks to OedipusColoneus who provided this recording.

Performed by: Paul Agnew (tenor) Christopher Wilson (lute)
Album: In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1996)
Label: METRONOME

Lyrics:

Weepe you no more sad fountaines,
What need you flowe so fast,
Looke how the snowie mountaines,
Heav'ns sunne doth gently waste.

But my sunnes heav'nly eyes
View not your weeping.
That now lie sleeping, that now lie sleeping,
Softly softly
That now softly lies sleeping.


Sleepe is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets:
Doth not the sunne rise smiling,
When faire at ev'n he sets,
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping, while she lies sleeping,
Softly softly
That now softly lies sleeping.

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[chelu115]

very beautiful tenor voice!

[Javaking9000]

The fact that the phrase never reaches an authentic cadence is so... idn, it causes it to be so hauntingly beautiful, as if the spirit of this song will continue on uttering words of mourning and beauty.

[Cardien18]

if only every man could sing like this...

[Triumphit1]

They should put this in Guitar Hero

lololool

jk just trying to break up the relative comments of how beautiful it is, not everything needs to be cachey guitar noobs

[JoelvanLennep]

Beautiful! One of my favorite lute songs.

[nicodagger]

@Javaking9000 Excellent observation and you have hit it in the nub.

[yodiepants]

@phillybaby1989 Float the G - it will be super hott! Use your whole voice!

[rukiaAndsakura4ever]

this really reminds me of phantom of the opera somehow- it also sounds mysterious and sad.

[phillybaby1989]

I need a lower version recording of this for my grade 8, i'm a baritone bass!!! :/

[MissCheerbeauty2]

What a beautiful voice!

[likeatide]

How beautifully this song and singer creates a paradox—to move me to tears!

Thank you for this posting!

[cousinjk]

I never thought I'd hear Deller surpassed in the singing of Dowland, but Paul Agnew has done it with his ravishing tone and subtle expression.