Butler, Charles
(1560–1647)
CHARLES BUTLERBUTLER, CHARLESCHARLES BUTLER [* ca. 1560-† 1647] Charles Butler, an amateur musician knowledgeable in the history, theory, and performance of music, published The Principles of Musik (1636), a thorough, scholarly textbook codifying earlier practice. Butler was an English priest who had received an education in general history, philosophy, languages, and literature at Oxford. Treatises on beekeeping and the English language were among his projects. His orthography includes some…