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Alonso Mudarra

Pavana

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. I/23v

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Source title Pauana [Gvitarra al temple nuevo]
Title in contents   Vna pauana
Text incipit


Music

Category dance

Genre pavana

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 49

Vihuela

Tuning D

Courses 4

Final IV/5

Highest I/10

Lowest IV/3

Difficulty not specified

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

A Pavane for 4-course guitar. It is not based on any pre-existing harmonic scheme, but based on the customary dance harmonic progressions, with prominence given to the chord based on the seventh degree of the mode