Luis Mil‡n (fl. 1536Ð1561) was a lutenist, singer, composer, and poet. His collection of lute tablatures, El Maestro, published in 1536, is the first book of instrumental music known to have been printed in Spain. Luis G‡sser discusses Mil‡n's attention to modality, his use of meter, and the ornamentation in his songs and fantas’as, for which Mil‡n provided both written-out figures and verbal instructions.Mil‡n's novel El Cortesano (1561) describes performances at the Valencian court. With inferences drawn from both books, G‡sser provides for present-day musicians--as Mil‡n did for his contemporaries--a text on 16th-century performance practice.