Luis Mil}}n on Sixteenth-Century Performance Practice [Paperback]

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For anyone interested in Mil?ns music, this is an excellent source of information. Renaissance Quarterly

Luis Mil?n (1536-1561) was a lutenist, singer, composer, and poet. His collection of lute tablatures, El Maestro, is the first book of instrumental music known to have been printed in Spain. Luis G?sser discusses Mil?ns attention to modality, his use of meter, and the ornamentation in his songs and fantas?as.

LUIS G?SSER, Professor at the University of Barcelona, holds degrees from Barcelona Conservatory, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and Stanford University. Like his subject, he is active as a composer, writer and performer on guitar and lute.

Foreword by George Houle
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. Background
Biography of Milan
The Dukes of Calabria and their Valencian court
Milans religious beliefs
Naples
The Cancioneros
3. El Cortesano
General plan
Style
Performance
4. El Maestro
Background
General plan
Modality
Tempo indications
Meter, tactus and time signature
Text setting
Ornamentation
Songs
Fantasias: Style and structure
Milans tablature
Tuning and temperament

Notes
Bibliography
Incipits
Index