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Short ID:  AM3.
Title:     Fantasia de pasos para desenbouluer las manos.
Composer:  Alonso Mudarra.
Source:    Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...  
           Libro I, folio III.
Date:      1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p29.

Tuning:    Vihuela tuning.
Time sig:  Moderato. ("C" on Mudarra's 2nd line. See general Mudarra comments.)  

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string):
  All rhythm values have been halved.
  M42r3s5 original showed fret 3. Changed to 2 here.
  M53r1s2 original showed fret 2. Changed to 3 here.

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M16r2, 
    m36r1s4, m51r1s5.
  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 m1r6, m9r2, m13r2, m25r2, m26r1, m31r1, 
  m40r2.

  "dos de" = play passage with alternating thumb and index finger. These 
  passages start at m5r5, m11r2, m14r2, m19r3, m19r1, m30r1, m42r1, m49r1.

Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
  1 10 18 26 33 43. Last measure is 53.


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                 Fantasia de pasos para desenbouluer las manos.              AM3: Page 1 of 2.
  Vihuela tuning.  Leading measures: 1 10 18 25 32 41.                         Alonso Mudarra.

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  Mudarra.  Fantasia.  Leading measures: 49.                                 AM3: Page 2 of 2.

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