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Alonso Mudarra

Tiento 6

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/16v

mu040

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Source title Tiento
Title in contents   Vn tiento (sexto tono)
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 6

Voices 4

Length (compases) 30

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final VI/1

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/1

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 sixth mode in Mudarra’s Segundo libro. Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this tiento. See 1557/2, no. 68 [Anglés edition, p. 98-9, Fantasia XIV] , also including material from Fantasia 23 (Mu041)