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Short ID: AM18.
Title: Fantasia del primer tono.
Composer: Alonso Mudarra.
Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...
Libro I, folio XXI.
Date: 1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p65.
Tuning: Guitarra al temple viejo (c g b e').
Time sig: Moderato. ("C" on Mudarra's 1st 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.
Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
1 15 30 42 53 66. Last measure is 71.
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Fantasia del primer tono. AM18: Page 1 of 1.
Guitarra al temple viejo (c g b e'). Leading measures: 1 18 32 44 53 66. Alonso Mudarra.
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