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: AM6.
Title: Fantasia facil.
Composer: Alonso Mudarra.
Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...
Libro I, folio V verso (and continues on folio VI verso.)
Date: 1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p34,36.
Tuning: Vihuela tuning.
Time sig: Quickly. ("Phi" on Mudarra's 3rd 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:
Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M2r1, m10r1,
m16r1s5.
Fermata on very last chord.
Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
1 13 24 (to folio VI verso) 37 49 62. Last measure is 76.
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Vihuela tuning. Leading measures: 1 15 27 40 55 70. Alonso Mudarra.
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