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Luis Milán

Fantasía 40 del séptimo y octavo tono

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. P5

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Source title Esta fantasia que se sigue va por los terminos del septimo y octavo tono:y hase de tañer con el compas algun tanto apriesa.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 7+8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 201

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/5

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/2

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

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Commentary

The rubric of Milan‘s last fantasia indicates that “this following gfantasia goes according to the seventh and eighth modes and has to be played quite quickly.” It is agood work, a polythematic fantasia that is pleasant and that is among the works that are most typical of his style. It is built of five sections, including one in ¢3. It is plan is as follows:
I (1-51) begins with S/A – T/B pairs then complementary motives 2a+b make a succession of statements, 3 is imitated and K.
II (51-103) begins by imitation of 4, cadences, states 5 twice as top of homophony, then proceeds motivically, through 6+7 to motive 8 which is tightly imitated with varied repetition >> K section.
III is built on Redoble 9, moves homophonically to imitations of 10 >> K [III (103-135).
IV ¢3 section. Dance like other Milán use of the triple signatures looser style of writing. Motives 11a+b, 12, 13, 14, 15 describe some of the repeated motivic ideas (135-180)
V (180-201) repeats opening of III, that is based on 9 + K.