A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song (Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions)

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.