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The '''lute song''' refers to a style of vocal music current during the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the countries of Western Europe. It was simply a song accompanied by a lute, nearly always played by the singer.  

The '''lute song''' refers to a style of vocal music current during the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the countries of Western Europe. It was simply a song accompanied by a [[lute]], nearly always played by the singer.  

As an independent art-song form, it reached its highest level of excellence in [[England]] in the late [[Elizabethan]] and [[Jacobean]] periods (about 1580-1620) with songs written by [[John Dowland]] and [[Thomas Campion]] in particular still extremely popular today.  

As an independent art-song form, it reached its highest level of excellence in [[England]] in the late [[Elizabethan]] and [[Jacobean]] periods (about 1580-1620) with songs written by [[John Dowland]] and [[Thomas Campion]] in particular still extremely popular today.