Could the quote perhaps be found in "El arte de taner fantasia" by
Tomas Santamaria?
G.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Matthew Daillie
<[1]dail...@club-internet.fr> wrote:
Hi Martin,
Several vihuelists seemed to say something along those lines but I
suspect that the quote you might be looking for is by Fuenllana:
'My opinion is that whoever truly wishes to learn music should
always train himself in studying and transcribing composed works,
since the true profit is obtained from them. And if the fantasias in
this book have some fragrance of composition, I confess the reason
to be that I have seen and transcribed many works of excellent
authors.'
Do you have Luis Gasser's book 'Luis Milan on Sixteenth Century
Performance Practice? If so, look up page 113 ff.
Best,
Matthew
On 03/03/2018 19:20, Martin Shepherd wrote:
Dear Collective Wisdom,
Can someone point me in the correct direction for the quote (from
Bermudo? Milan? someone else entirely?) who said roughly (in
translation) "but the highest form of this art is to play fantasia"
or something like that, meaning to take a theme or themes from vocal
music and use them to create an instrumental piece.
Merci d'avance,
Martin
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