| Source title | [Tiento del] Tercero tono. |
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Music
Category abstract
Genre tiento
Fantasia type
Mode 3
Voices 4
Length (compases) 50
Vihuela
Tuning E
Courses 6
Final VI/0
Highest I/7
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty
Tempo
Song Text
Language
Vocal notation
Commentary
Through composed four-voiced polyphony. The music does not conform to a conventional understanding of mode 3, especially as it is based on an intervallic scale e-d-c-b-a-g-f#-e, and has numberous cadences on the modal final with leading tone cadences d#-e.
