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Miguel de Fuenllana

Fantasía 44

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 164v

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Source title Fantasia. D.
Title in contents   Fantasia segunda
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 1

Voices 3

Length (compases) 71

Vihuela

Tuning [E]

Courses 4

Final III/5

Highest I/8

Lowest IV/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo not specified

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Commentary

The second of Fuenllana’s Fantasias for four-course vihuela. A short polythematic, imitative fantasia of 71 compases. Tuning is as if the four middle courses of a vihuela in E. Structure:

I (1-33) Theme 1, canonic imit, characterful.
II (33-48) Theme 2, abstract mellifluous theme, imit.
III (48-71) Theme 3, punchy, predominantly suelto imitations.

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

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