This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Gaspar Sanz's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.
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Short ID: GS23d.
Title: Folias.
Composer: Gaspar Sanz.
Source: Instruccion; tomo 2; page 3.
Date: 1697.
Facsimile: Minkoff, 1976.
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: 3.
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
M33 original rhythm was half. Changed here to dotted-half.
M47 original rhythm was 8th (8th 8th 8th 8th). Changed here to
8th (8th 8th 8th) 4er.
M49-M50 original has a full-length double bar, slightly decorated,
separating these measures. Sanz usually uses full-length double bars
to separate one piece from another. (The other double bars in this
piece are Sanz's regular half-length kind.)
Explanation of symbols:
" = trill, generally starting on upper neighbor.
# = vibrato.
, = mordent, main note to lower neighbor and back to the main note.
Esta Glosada Toda se Corre. = play fast. "This whole gloss (that is,
variation) races."
Octave doublings: If you play this on a modern guitar, consider adding or
substituting the octave above any note played on the 4th or 5th string.
Leading measures in Sanz's original tablature:
1 24 48. Last measure is 65.
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Folias. GS23d: Page 1 of 2.
Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 12 22 31 41. Gaspar Sanz.
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Sanz. Folias. Leading measures: 51 58 66. GS23d: Page 2 of 2.
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