It was probably in 1596 that Bathe's (1564-1614) second treatise appeared on London bookshelves, but Karnes suggests that it was in fact written a decade earlier and only published when a new market for instructional texts on musical subjects was being cultivated by the leading publishers in the city. Editor(s): Karnes, Kevin C. Series Editor(s): Owens, Professor Jessie Ann. Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions. Num Pages: 152 pages, Includes 4 illustrations and 95 music examples. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2005. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0754635449
ISBN 13: 9780754635444
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Although unjustly neglected by modern writers, William Bathe’s contributions to music pedagogy in late sixteenth-century England were profound. Bathe’s A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song (1596) not only includes the first explication of a four-syllable, non-hexachordal solmization method published by an English writer (a system similar to that which would become the standard in England during the seventeenth century) but also outlines a combinatorial method for composing canons that is remarkably forward-looking in both conception and design. In addition to providing the first modern edition of Bathe’s treatise, the volume examines the complicated compilation and publication histories of the book, the historical and theoretical foundations of Bathe’s contributions, and the relationship between the 1596 book and Bathe’s 1584 treatise A Briefe Introduction to the True Arte of Musicke (the extant text of which is included as an appendix).

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