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Luis Milán

Fantasía 39 del séptimo y octavo tono

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. P3

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Source title Esta fantasia que se sigue es del septimo y octavo tono:y ha se de tañer algun tanto apriessa. tambien se puede hacer por aqui el quinto y sexto tono como por las fantasias passadas aueys visto.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 7+8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 195

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/3

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

Song Text

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Vocal notation

Commentary

The rubric declares that “this fantasia that follow is in the seventh and eighth modes and it has to be played a bit fast. You can also play the fifth and sixth modes in this position as you have seen in some of the previous fantasias. Once again, it is a polythematic fantasia, another work in the same motivic style. This one breaks into five sections, the first of which is very long, shaped from many motives which taken a role equal to that of the free counterpoint and homophony of the section. III, IV, V are also similar. The work has no large scale repetitions. Cohesion comes from motives. Phrases of I are shaped in alternating phrases of upward and downward melodic thrust. A tuning gives F >> B tuning gives proper mode. The sectional divisions are as follows:
I 1-100
II 100-119
III 120-138
IV 139-175
V 176-195