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Miguel de Fuenllana

Fantasía 39

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 160v

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

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 6

Voices 4

Length (compases) 66

Vihuela

Tuning C =5

Courses 5

Final IV/0

Highest I/5

Lowest V/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

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Commentary

The third of Fuenllana’s Fantasias for five-course vihuela. It is a short polythematic imitative, short fantasia 66 compases. It appears to be conceived in mode 6 and transcribes well as a piece for a vihuekla in C. Jacobs, however, transcribes it in D tuning as a mode 8 piece with an F# signature.
It opens with iimitations of theme 1 until a cadence at compas 26. Thereafter, theme 2 begins with looser imitations, and from 44 onwards, the work is free with only one varied reference to 2 in the Bass at 50-52. Like all the vihuela de 5 ordenes pieces, most is 3 voice writing although 4 voice initial exposition. 4th voice is added for chords around cadences.

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

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