Vida y muerte de un maestro de canto llano de la catedral de Sevilla en el siglo XVI: El tratadista Luis de Villafranca

This paper tries to draw Luis de Villafranca’s social profile, who was an acting chapel master and altar boys teacher in the sixteenth- century cathedral of Seville, basically through notarial sources, paying special attention to his will, that shows -with attached documents- a different death date from known. The influence exerted by musical activities over a person’s social profile and vice versa in the Spanish 16th century is the main interest of this research