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: AM5.
Title: Fantasia facil.
Composer: Alonso Mudarra.
Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...
Libro I, folio V.
Date: 1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p33.
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.
Tablature elements to be added by hand:
Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M35r1,
m45r3s4, m51r1.
Fermata on very last chord.
Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
1 13 25 (to folio VI) 37 49 61. Last measure is 73.
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Vihuela tuning. Leading measures: 1 15 31 44 58 73. Alonso Mudarra.
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