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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 16th and into the 17th 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.
:Or have taste the bag of the Bee?
:Or have taste the bag of the Bee?
:Oh so whyte, Oh so soft, Oh so sweet was she!"
:Oh so whyte, Oh so soft, Oh so sweet was she!"
The form, sung in its original style, was retrieved from virtual oblivion in the middle of the 20th century by the English counter-tenor Afred Deller.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xywx4Yl2M3A&NR=1]]
*The English popular singer, Sting, recorded a CD of John Dowland lute songs in 2006. Done “straight” and with an expert lutenist, the recording, “''Songs from the Labyrinth''”, has attracted equal measures of praise and opprobrium.
*The English popular singer, Sting, recorded a CD of John Dowland lute songs in 2006. Done “straight” and with an expert lutenist, the recording, “''Songs from the Labyrinth''”, has attracted equal measures of praise and opprobrium.