This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Alonso Mudarra's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.

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Short ID:  AM2.
Title:     Fantasia para desenboluer las manos.
Composer:  Alonso Mudarra.
Source:    Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...  
           Libro I, folio II.
Date:      1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p27.

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.
  M5: original rhythm was 8th (8th 8th) 4er (4er). There is a larger than 
    normal gap between the first two fret numbers. Is one missing?

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M12r1, m30r1, 
    m33r1 s1 and s4.
  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 m2r1, m16r2, m18r1, m39r1, m44r1, m47r2, 
  m50r3, m52r2.

  "dos de" = play passage with alternating thumb and index finger. These 
  passages start at m3r1, m5r1, m6r1, m7r2, m8r2, m9r1, m13r2, m41r1, m43r2, 
  m53r2.

Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
  1 8 16 26 39 46. Last measure is 54.


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                      Fantasia para desenboluer las manos.                   AM2: Page 1 of 1.
  Vihuela tuning.  Leading measures: 1 9 16 27 40 47.                          Alonso Mudarra.

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