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: AM43.
Title: Tiento (septimo tono).
Composer: Alonso Mudarra.
Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...
Libro II, folio XX.
Date: 1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p113.
Tuning: Vihuela tuning.
Time sig: Quickly. ("Phi" 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 13 25. Last measure is 29.
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Tiento (septimo tono). AM43: Page 1 of 1.
Vihuela tuning. Leading measures: 1 15 27. Alonso Mudarra.
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