| A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song, C. 1587 Contributor(s): Bathe, William (Author), Rainbow, Bernarr (Author), Rainbow, Bernarr (Editor) |
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ISBN: 086314022X ISBN-13: 9780863140228 Publisher: Boethius Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781 |
| Series: Classic Texts in Music Education |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When, in 1584, William Bathe, then just a young student at Oxford, published a tract on the teaching of music, his work became the first musical text book to appear in the English language. No copy of this work now exists, but some years later Bathe produced a new version, now called A brief Introduction to the skill of song. In it Bathe sought to present a new, much simpler way to learn music, in open opposition to the traditional approaches of theday, the "manifold and crabbed, confused, tedious rules", as he puts it. This book, a facsimile of Bathe's work, describes musical methods old and new and will be of great interest to musicologists and players of early music. Introduction by Bernarr Rainbow and published in the series ClassicTexts in Music Education. |