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Short ID: AM3. Title: Fantasia de pasos para desenbouluer las manos. Composer: Alonso Mudarra. Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela... Libro I, folio III. Date: 1546. Facsimile: Chanterelle, p29. Tuning: Vihuela tuning. Time sig: Moderato. ("C" on Mudarra's 2nd line. See general Mudarra comments.) Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): All rhythm values have been halved. M42r3s5 original showed fret 3. Changed to 2 here. M53r1s2 original showed fret 2. Changed to 3 here. Tablature elements to be added by hand: Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M16r2, m36r1s4, m51r1s5. Fermata on very last chord. In this piece, Mudarra supplies some instructions for the right hand. (See the general Mudarra comments.) "de di" = play passage with index finger alone plucking one way and the other. These passages start at m1r6, m9r2, m13r2, m25r2, m26r1, m31r1, m40r2. "dos de" = play passage with alternating thumb and index finger. These passages start at m5r5, m11r2, m14r2, m19r3, m19r1, m30r1, m42r1, m49r1. Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature: 1 10 18 26 33 43. Last measure is 53. *** Download and edit out all material above and below the tablature. *** See my printing tips in the page, "General comments on the tablature." *** Print out starting with the title line below. Fantasia de pasos para desenbouluer las manos. AM3: Page 1 of 2. Vihuela tuning. Leading measures: 1 10 18 25 32 41. 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