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Alonso Mudarra

Tiento 8

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/24

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Source title Tiento
Title in contents   Vn tiento y...(Octavo tono)
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Music

Category abstract

Genre tiento

Fantasia type

Mode 8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 24

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/9

Lowest VI/0

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 eighth mode in Mudarra’s Segundo libro. Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this tiento. See 1557/2, no. 72 [Anglés edition, p. 106-8, Fantasia XVIII] , also including material from Fantasia 25 (Mu047)