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Luis Milán

Fantasía 22, del octavo tono que remeda a las pavanas que tañen en Italia

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. G2

mi022

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Source title Esta fantasía que se sigue es del octavo tono:y ha se de tañer ni muy a espacio ni muy apriessa:sino con vn compas bien mesurado.el ayre della remeda al ayre delas pauanas que tañen en ytalia:que por ser tan aplazible hallareys luego despues desta fantasia seys fantasias que hos pareceran en su ayre y compostura a las mesmas pauanas que en Ytalia se tañen.
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Genre fantasia

Fantasia type Par

Mode 8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 176

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty not specified

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This Fantasia is built from material that is presented in the fourth of Milán’s pavanas (mi026). For this reason it has been designated a parody fantasia, although it is also within a polythematic imitative setting. Based on Milán’s 4th Pavana, the theme of which is also used in a Pavane by M. Praetorius. The general style is similar to the fantasias which precede it, except that there is a large scale repetition; thus it could be looked at in dance form thus: [A] = (I, II), [B] (=III, IV), [B] + K. The amount of imitation distinguishes it from Milans other Pavanes as does its length. Thematic interrelationships: 2 bases on 1 (tail); 11 = condensed head motive of 7. The repeated use of theme 1 is also atypical – due to parody. It also has allusions to some military-styled motives, that perhaps link it to the fashion for battle pavanes at about this time.

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