The Art of Fantasía For All Guitars and Lutes: A Modern Guide to Counterpoint in the 16th Century Spanish Style Containing an Abridged Edition of the Arté de Tañer Fantasía (1565) of Fray Thomás de Sancta Maria Selected For Study on Fretted Instruments And A History of Intonation and Fret Setting By Jack Zelenka © 2024 Based on the Libro Llamado Arté de Tañer Fantasía of Thomás de Sancta Maria (1565) I present a set of transcriptions of the fugues of Thomás de Sancta Maria, for application to the guitar or lute, accompanied by a translation of TSM's text. I precede the fugues with an extensive historical commentary in order to explain how TSM's tonal system is related to the historical fretting of the vihuela, a subject with a critical bearing on the authentic performance of "Spanish Musica Ficta," and which also opens a new window into the probable historical origin of the Church Modes. TSM did not notate his accidentals completely: I treat this historical fact as sensitively and as thoroughly as possible by tracing the history of accidentals in terms of the historical patterns of fretting the lute, so that the reader may make his or her own authentically informed choices about the "missing" inflection marks, working directly from my transcriptions, without the usual editorial bowdlerizations, but including a generous amount of historical information bearing on the "correct"...