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Fantasía 12 [del] quinto tono

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 69v

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Source title Esta fantasia es del primero grado. Quinto tono.
Title in contents   Fantasia suelta en el primero grado.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type nIm+Im

Mode 5

Voices 3

Length (compases) 78

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Fantasia suelta, partially imitative. Short: 78 compases, moving from beginning to end without pause. Symmetrical design.
Interesting features: (1) abrupt harmonic turn at 43-44. (2) Developmental approach to thematic writing and counterpoint. (3) “Drone” texture – pedal.
I 1-39; II 39-78, - exactly half.
I – begins imitatively theme 1; then freer with theme 2, then cadential theme 3 over pedal C. >> 25-39 is a development of the theme 1 material.
II – begins with tighter motivic imitation of 4, then at 54 begins contrasting free homophony with sequence of 5 at 70 giving sense of culmination.

Reprinted in Phalèse, Hortus Musarum [1552/11], Nº 9