Luis Milán on sixteenth-century performance practice / Luis Gásser.

Author/creator Gásser, Luis, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
Descriptionvi, 222 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPublications of the Early Music Institute
Publications of the Early Music Institute. ^A269942
Contents Introduction -- Background. Biography of Milán ; The Dukes of Calabria and their Alencian court ; Milán's religious beliefs ; Naples ; The Cancioneros -- El Cortesano. General plan ; Style ; Performance -- El maestro. Background ; General plan ; Modality ; Tempo indications ; Meter, tactus and time signature ; Text setting ; Ornamentation ; Songs ; Fantasías: style and structure ; Milán's tablature ; Tuning and temperament.
Abstract Luis Milan (fl. 1536-1561) was a lutenist, singer, composer, and poet. His collection of lute tablatures, El Maestro, published in 1536, is the first book of instrumental music known to have been printed in Spain; and his novel El Cortesano (1561) describes performances at the Valencian court. Luis Gasser discusses Milan's attention to modality, his use of meter, and the ornamentation in his songs and fantasias, for which Milan provided both written-out figures and verbal instructions. With inferences drawn from both El Maestro and El Cortesano, Gasser provides for present-day musicians--as Milan did for his contemporaries--a text on sixteenth-century performance practice.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
LCCN 95047996
ISBN0253210186 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Music Music Stacks ML410.M67 G37 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold