The British Musical Biography

[E] Butler, Charles, musician and author,
born at Wycombe, Bucks., in 1559. M.A.,
Oxford. Master of the Free school at Basing-
stoke, Hants. Vicarat Wooton, St Lawrence,
Hants. He died on March 29, 1647.
I Works. — The Feminine Monarchie ; or, the
Historic of Bees . . . proving that in the Bees'
song are the grounds of Musicke. Oxford,
1609; other editions. The PrinciplesofMusick
in singing and setting : with the twofold use
thereof, ecclesiastical and civil. London,
1636. An English Grammar, and other works.
The first work is a curious production ; the
second a learned treatise on theory and on
the abuses in sacred and secular music. His
works were printed partly in characters taken
from the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, partly in
others of his own invention, which are de-
scribed in his Grammar.

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