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Blame Not My Lute

Elizabethan Lute Music and Poetry

Ronn McFarlane (lute) & Robert Aubry Davis (spoken word)

Blame Not My Lute

Blame Not My Lute

Elizabethan Lute Music and Poetry

Ronn McFarlane (lute) & Robert Aubry Davis (spoken word)

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Dorian Sono Luminus presents Blame Not my Lute, the latest release from GRAMMY nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane, accompanied in voice by internationally known television and radio personality Robert Aubrey Davis.

McFarlane and Davis artfully match poetry and theater works about the lute to the finest lute music taken from the same Elizabethan and Jacobean era. Originally presented as a live performance, Blame Not my Lute is a masterful mix of lilting verse by Shakespeare and Sir John Davies and enchanting lute music of Dowland.

Contents and tracklist

anon.: Bonny Sweet Boy
Work length1:14
  • Ronn McFarlane
anon.: Blame not my Lute
Work length2:54
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Dowland: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Work length1:26
  • Ronn McFarlane
William Shakespeare: Henry VIII (music, Melancholy Galliard by J. Dowland), Henry VIII
Work length3:00
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Act 3: The Queen's Apartments [music: Melancholy Galliard by J. Dowland]
Track length3:00
anon.: Kemp's Jig
Work length1:11
  • Ronn McFarlane
anon.: Packington's Pound
Work length1:47
  • Ronn McFarlane
Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed With Kindness
Work length2:43
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Martin Goldsmith, Emily Townley, Ronn McFarlane
Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15
Work length4:46
  • Ronn McFarlane
William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew, Act II
Work length1:13
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Martin Goldsmith
Scene 1
Track length1:13
Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump
Work length0:47
  • Ronn McFarlane
Samuel Daniel: Sonnet LVII
Work length2:32
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Like as the Lute (Music: Go from my window, P. 64 by J. Dowland)
Track length2:32
Campion: When to her lute Corinna sings
Work length1:07
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
Work length1:18
  • Ronn McFarlane
Robert Herrick: Upon Julia's Voice
Work length0:24
  • Robert Aubry Davis
Byrd: Pavana in F Major, No. 1, "Bray" (Arr. F. Cutting)
Work length4:51
  • Ronn McFarlane
Richard Barnfield: If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree (music
Work length2:22
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P. 19 by J. Dowland)
Track length2:22
Anonymous, Thomas D'Urfey: The Wanton Trick
Work length2:28
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
William Shakespeare: The 2 Gentlemen of Verona, Act III
Work length0:23
  • Robert Aubry Davis
Scene 2
Track length0:23
Dowland: Fantasia No. 7 in D Minor
Work length3:10
  • Ronn McFarlane
John Davies: Nosce Teipsum (music, Fortune my foe, P. 62 by J. Dowland)
Work length4:43
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Nosce Teipsum: Objection 1 - Answer - Objection 2 - Answer [music: Fortune my foe, P. 62 by J. Dowland]
Track length4:43
Dowland: A Varietie of Lute Lessons
Work length1:25
  • Ronn McFarlane
The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, P. 41
Track length1:25
Thomas Wyatt: My lute awake (music
Work length4:51
  • Robert Aubry Davis, Ronn McFarlane
Tarleton's Resurrection, P. 59 by J. Dowland)
Track length4:51
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