The Art of Playing the Fantasia, Volumes 1-2Sancta Mar a's treatise (1565) is a complete and exhaustive study of Spanish Renaissance keyboard fingerings, tuning and temperament, harmonization of chant, embellishments, teaching methods, composition, and improvisation. The first complete modern translation of his music theories and performance practices. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | iii |
The Author Including Chronology | xxiv |
TRANSLATION OF CONTRACT From Plates 16 abcd 1 | lv |
Copyright | |
Common terms and phrases
acute alto or treble ascending and descending ascending or descending bass or tenor bass strikes beginning black flat black key cadence formed cadential semibreve Capitulo clausula clavichord consonances and dissonances consonant chords dela diapente diatessaron dotted minim Double Compounds downbeat enel entry Errata form the cadence four consonances four voices fourth G sol grave half measure half-tactus hard hexachord hexachord imitation imperfect consonances keyboard leap lower interval lower voices melodic line natural occur perfect pitch sign located polyphonic quatro quavers quiebros redoble Santa Maria second cadence step second half semiminim semiquavers short octave singable semitones singing or playing soft hexachord sol re ut sound stepwise strike struck subtonal superacute Tabla tactus tecla tenor third Three Dissonances three voices tone tonos translation treble enters triple compounds unison unsingable semitone upbeat upper interval upper voice Valladolid variant is formed vihuela voices enter white key