Source title | Fantasia. F. |
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Title in contents | Fantasia tercera |
Text incipit |
Category abstract
Genre fantasia
Fantasia type ImM
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 63
Tuning {G]
Courses 4
Final IV/2
Highest I/7
Lowest IV/0
Difficulty easy
Tempo not specified
Language
Vocal notation
The third of Fuenllana’s Fantasias for four-course vihuela. The tuning is as if the inner four courses of a vihuela in G. This work can be described as a monothematic imitative fantasia. It divides into three episodes. It is a short composition of 63 compases. Jacobs also calls this work monothematic, perhaps it would be better to call it a polythematic fantasia, with close thematic integration.
I (1-19) Theme 1 imitated canonically.
II (19-46) Theme 1b = head of 1. Begins with suelto appearances below a free rapid passage then becomes more imitative.
III (46-63) Imitations of theme 2 which is a motivation of theme I.
A manuscript copy of this piece is in E-Mn-MP/2211/1