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Tomás de Santa María (also
Tomás de Sancta Maria) (d.
1570) was a
Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the
Renaissance. He was born in
Madrid but the date is highly uncertain; he died in
Ribadavia. Little is known about his life except that he joined the
Dominican order of friars in
1536, he was employed as an organist in various locales in mid-century, and he published his major work,
Arte de tañer fantasía, in
Valladolid in
1565.
This book is a comprehensive work on keyboard technique of the time. Its principal aim is to teach how to improvise in a
fugal style, but to get to that point, difficult to the most accomplished musicians of any age, he includes detailed treatments of the rudiments of music, the eight church
modes, ornaments, touch, articulation, fingering, and
counterpoint, including a categorization of four-note chords, rather similar to what
Pietro Aron had written several decades before in
Italy (which work he may have used as a source). The classification of chords is especially significant for this is the period in music history during which composers began to think in terms of harmonic progression as a generative mechanism rather than purely the happenstance of intersecting, independent melodic lines. Santa María's book also gives instruction for creating music using the paired
imitation technique of
Josquin des Prez, who he clearly held to be the master of the style.
Santa María's writings were influential both inside of Spain and throughout the rest of Europe, as can be seen by the numerous early
Baroque music theorists (for example
Dámaso Artufel and
Pietro Cerone) who plagiarized him.
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