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Miguel de Fuenllana

Tiento 7, del séptimo tono

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 172v

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Source title [Tiento del] Septimo tono.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 7

Voices 4

Length (compases) 57

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

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Commentary

This tiento is another example of through-composed four-voice polyphony. Its tonality is clearly G, Cadences occur with leading tones on several scal degrees, and none of the voices appears to correspond to the range of a mode 7 melody.

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