Luis Milán on Sixteenth-Century Performance Practice

Contents

• Foreword by George Houle
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Background
• Biography of Milan
• The Dukes of Calabria and their Valencian court
• Milan's 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
• Milan's tablature
• Tuning and temperament
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Incipits
• Index