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Miguel de Fuenllana

Fantasía 45

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 164v

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Source title Fantasia. F.
Title in contents   Fantasia tercera
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImM

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 63

Vihuela

Tuning {G]

Courses 4

Final IV/2

Highest I/7

Lowest IV/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

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