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Miguel de Fuenllana

Tiento 8, del octavo tono

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 172v

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Source title [Tiento del] Octauo tono.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 49

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final V/3

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

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The final tiento is another example of through-composed four-voice polyphony. Its tonality is clearly G, with motivic imitation at the beginning. It uses a melodic structure using f# throughout, and has no cadences on the modal dominant, c. There are few strong cadences, but the tenor appears to correspond to the range of a mode 8 range.

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