Santa Maria, Fráy Tomas de
Santa Maria, Fráy Tomas de
Santa Maria, Fráy Tomas de , important Spanish organist and composer; b. Madrid, c. 1510; d. Ribadavia, 1570. He pubi. Libro llamadc Arte de tañer fantasía (Valladolid, 1565), a treatise on playing fantasias on keyboard instruments and on the guitar or lute (Ger. tr., with critical and biographical introduction, by E. Harich-Schneider and R. Boadella, Leipzig, 1937).
Bibliography
W. Hultberg, Sancta Maria’s “Libro llamado Arte de taner fantasia”: A Critical Evaluation (diss., Univ. of Southern Calif., 1964).
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