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Alonso Mudarra

Tiento 5

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/13v

mu037

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Source title Tiento.
Title in contents   Vn tiento (Quinto tono)
Text incipit


Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 5

Voices 4

Length (compases) 40

Vihuela

Tuning F

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

A brief through-composed preludial composition to commence the group of pieces in the fifth mode in Mudarra’s Segundo libro. Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this tiento. See 1557/2, no. 65 [Anglés edition, p. 92-93, Fantasia XI] , also including material from Fantasia 21 (Mu038)