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Alonso Mudarra

Tiento 4

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/11

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Source title Tiento [quarto tono]
Title in contents   Vn tiento y...(Quarto tono)
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 4

Voices 4

Length (compases) 23

Vihuela

Tuning F#

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

A brief through-composed preludial composition to commence the group of pieces in the fourth mode in Mudarra’s Segundo libro. Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this tiento. See 1557/2, no. 62 [Anglés edition, pp. 87-88, Fantasia VIII], mixed together with Na004, Fantasia 4