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Short ID:  AM4.
Title:     Fantasia de pasos de contado.
Composer:  Alonso Mudarra.
Source:    Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...  
           Libro I, folio 4.
Date:      1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p31.

Tuning:    Vihuela tuning.
Time sig:  Quickly.  ("Phi" on Mudarra's 2nd line. See general Mudarra comments.)  

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string):
  All rhythm values have been halved.

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  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 m1r1, m11r1, m23r1, m36r1, m48r2.

  "dos de" = play passage with alternating thumb and index finger. These 
  passages start at m25r1, m41r1, m46r1, m56r1, m61r1, m63r1.

Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
  1 11 23 35 47 58. Last measure is 72.


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                         Fantasia de pasos de contado.                       AM4: Page 1 of 1.
  Vihuela tuning.  Leading measures: 1 12 26 38 50 61.                         Alonso Mudarra.

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