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Short ID:  AM1.
Title:     Fantasia de pasos largos para desenbouluer las manos.
Composer:  Alonso Mudarra.
Source:    Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...  
           Libro I, folio I.
Date:      1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p25.

Tuning:    Vihuela tuning.
Time sig:  Moderato. ("C" on Mudarra's 3rd line. See general Mudarra comments.)  

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string):
  All rhythm values have been halved.
  M50r3s1 original showed no fret number at this position. (There was a 
  gap in the line.)  Fret 2 added here.

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M4r2s1; 
    m10r1; m15r3; m25r3; m54r3.
  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 m18r3, m22r3, m31r1, m48r1, m49r2, m50r5.

  "dos de" = play passage with alternating thumb and index finger. These 
  passages start at m19r5, m23r1, m26r1, m28r1, m30r2, m33r2, m44r2, m45r2, 
  m47r2, m53r2, m56r3, 

Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
  1 13 23 31 39 49. Last measure is 57.


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             Fantasia de pasos largos para desenbouluer las manos.           AM1: Page 1 of 2.
  Vihuela tuning.  Leading measures: 1 14 24 31 39 48.                         Alonso Mudarra.

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  Mudarra.  Fantasia.  Leading measures: 56.                                 AM1: Page 2 of 2.

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