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Luis Milán

Fantasía 12 del tercero y quarto tono

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. D6

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Source title Esta fantasia que se sigue anda por los terminos del tercero y quarto tono:y ha se de tañer con el compas y ayre sobredicho de las dos fantasias passadas.y los redobles destas tres fantasias mejor se tañeran con dedillo pues son hechas para hazer soltura de dedo.
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Genre fantasia

Fantasia type Id

Mode 3+4

Voices 3

Length (compases) 98

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/2

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

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Tightly knit polythematic fantasia in consonancias and redobles style. Almost symmetrical in design. 7 sections delineated by “coronadas” [Breve with a fermata]. Sections I-V upward in thrust while sections VI-VII are downward. Themes are all stepwise, grow out of each other by rhythmic implication homophonic passages and redobles have little to do with the main musical argument; they are introduced usually in the latter half of each segment to counterbalance the single direction of thrust and thus add balance as well as diversion.

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