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In 1597, Dowland published his First Book of Songs in London. It was one of the most influential and important musical publications of the history of the lute.[3] This collection of lute-songs was set out in a way that allows performance by a soloist with lute accompaniment or various combinations of singers and instrumentalists.[21]
Dowland published two books of songs after the First Book of Songs, in 1600 and 1603, as well as the Lachrymae in 1604.[17] He also published a translation of the Micrologus of Andreas Ornithoparcus in 1609, originally printed in Leipzig in 1517, a rather stiff and medieval treatise, but nonetheless occasionally entertaining.[22]
Dowland's last, and in the opinion of most scholars, best work, A Pilgrimes Solace, was published in 1612,[23] and seems to have been conceived more as a collection of contrapuntal music than as solo works.[24]
