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Miguel de Fuenllana

Fantasía 38

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 160

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Source title Fantasia. F.
Title in contents   Fantasia segunda
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Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 68

Vihuela

Tuning E =5

Courses 5

Final IV/5

Highest I/6

Lowest V/1

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

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Commentary

The second of Fuenllana’s group of fantasias for vihuela de 5 ordenes. It is a short polythematic imitative fantasia of 68 compases. The mode is not specified but appears to be mode 2, untransposed but with Bb. Fuenllana limits the scope, voices, range of work for the limits of the 5 course instrument. The structure may be summarised as follows:

I (1-23) theme 1 imit B/T – A – free – A – A – K.
II (23-51) theme 2 imit. Theme is narrow in ambit contrast to the broad sweep of 1. A/T – B – B then free from 35 – end of section.
III (51-68) theme 3 imitated. More akin to section I.

A manuscript copy of this piece is in E-Mn-MP/2211/1

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