Source title | Otra fantasia del sesto tono a quatro. |
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Title in contents | Fantasia del sexto tono a quatro. |
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Category abstract
Genre fantasia
Fantasia type nIm+Im
Mode 6
Voices 4
Length (compases) 132
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final IV/0
Highest I/9
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Language
Vocal notation
Rubric: “Another fantasia in mode 6, a 4.” This work is a polythematic, partially imitative fantasia. It is a pleasant, approachable, and playable work, but somewhat amorphous. Even though its cadences are well enough placed, there is not much melodic structure. It opens with well-constructed imitation of its opening theme. The second section (bar 19ff) introduces a 2nd theme in imitation, but this dissolves into meandering free polyphony a few bars later and continues for another 40 bars without much sense of strong direction. It is reminiscent of a vocal style, however, but without a any narrative program. It serves as a good example of the inadequacy of through-composed vocal style as instrumental idiom without rhetorical narrative.