It was probably in 1596 that Bathe's 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 i…
"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 …
Of contents: Part 1. Bathe's A briefe introduction to the skill of song : history, context, significance -- Part 2. William Bathe, A briefe introduction to the skill of song -- Part 3. Bathe's A briefe introductione to the true art of musicke : the extant text.