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Alonso Mudarra

Tiento 7

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/20

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Source title Tiento
Title in contents   Vn tiento y...(septimo tono)
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 7

Voices 4

Length (compases) 29

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo slow

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

A brief through-composed preludial composition to commence the group of pieces in the seventh mode in Mudarra’s Segundo libro. Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this tiento. See 1557/2, no. 70 [Anglés edition, p. 103-4, Fantasia XVI] , also including material from Fantasia 24 (Mu044)