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Fantasía 32, [del] cuarto tono

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 81v

va119

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Source title Fantasia. Quarto tono. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Fantasia en el tercero grado suelta.
Text incipit


Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type nIm+Im

Mode 4

Voices 4

Length (compases) 114

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final VI/3

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/1

Difficulty difficult

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Fantasia suelta of 114 compases rather free but of the imit – free – imit species. Begins with successive voice entries 1 = incipit, further voice entries barely resemble opening part. Then free until 94 where theme 2 is the top of a harmonic network which is sequenced + K.
Relatively few internal cadences.
4th mode. – work finishes on 4th of mode harmonically. In E tuning final is D with 2 b’s, and final is on G

Reprinted/reworked by Venegas de Henestrosa [1557/2, nº 63. See ward1953