This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Anthoine Carre's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.
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Short ID: AC23.
Title: Alemande.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 23.
Date: ca. 1690?
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: Cut (slashed "C".)
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
M26p3: The chute (see below) was notated as it always is, a curved line
above the staff, which seems to suggest the ornament applies to the
uppermost note. I'm no expert on chutes, but it makes more sense,
sounds better and is more playable on the string 2 note, which is
where I've placed it here. Compare with the written-out "chute" at m46p3.
Richard Pinnell, in his dissertation on Corbetta, notes that this Alemande
is similar to Corbetta's on page 28 of his 1671 book. I don't see it.
Tablature elements to be added by hand:
Slurs. If only a starting point is given, slur includes all the following
uninterrupted notes on the same string.
M3 p2s2.
M5 p4-6s2.
M6 p2-4s1.
M8 p3-4s1.
M13 p1s1.
M14 p2-4s2, p2s4.
M17 p2s5.
M19 p2s5.
M22 p4s1.
M23 p2s2.
M24 p4s1.
M25 p2s2.
M33 p2-3s1.
M35 p2s1.
M39 p2s2.
M46 p3s2.
M49 p2s2.
M51 p2-4s2.
M52 p3-4s5.
M53 p2-4s1.
M57 p2-3s1.
M59 p4s3.
Strums: Arrowheads ^ and v indicate strums. Open strings in strummed chords
were not shown in the tablature; add as many open strings as sound good.
Take a moment to re-draw the ^ arrowhead right at the top of the associated
stem.
Explanation of symbols:
" = trill (starting on upper neighbor).
, = mordent (main note to lower neighbor and back to the main note).
. = do not strum this string in the chord.
$ = petite reprise symbol. Return to the sign and play to the end.
( = "chute." A note in a chord is reached by a slur from its lower
neighbor. It is not crushed like a mordent. For example:
^ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
| | | | | | | | | | |
_____v_______ __^___v_______
|_(3________| |_2_3________|
|__3________| |_3__________|
|______3_2_0| = |_______3_2_0|
|___________| |____________|
|__1________| |_1__________|
|___________| |____________|
Octave doublings: If you are playing on a modern, single-string guitar,
consider adding or substituting the next octave up almost everywhere
you see a 4th- or 5th-string note.
Performance style: consider playing the 8th notes inegales, that is, as dotted
8ths or "swing" 8ths (triplet feel).
Leading measures in Carre's original tablature:
1 7 14 21 30 38 45 52 60. Last measure is 62.
Suggestion: In baroque guitar music, there can be ambiguity when, immediately
following a strummed chord, the composer indicates a fret number with another
indication to strum. You can usually figure out whether he meant to add that
note to the previous chord, or (more rarely) to finger just that note with
the other strings played open. For me, m4 was ambiguous. I've shown below
what I think is a good guess of Carre's intentions. I think the two fret
numbers at p2 are meant to modify the chord at p1; and the two fret numbers
at p3 represent a new chord. There is a something similar in m58.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | | |
___________ ___________
|_________| |_0_0_0___|
|___1_____| |_0_1_0___|
|_1_2_2_"1| -> |_1_2_2_"1|
|_2___2___| |_2_2_2___|
|_________| |_._._0___|
|_________| |_________|
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^ __ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ___ ___ ^ ^ ^
|. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
_______^______v___________________________^___________________________________________________v_
________|________|________|_________|____________|___0_2_4|_5_______|_4___4_5|_7______|_5___5__|
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___2____|________|________|_1_2_2_"1|____________|________|_________|________|_____7__|_5___5__|
___2____|________|________|_2___2___|____________|_2______|_3_______|_2______|_6______|_7___7__|
________|________|________|_________|_0___2______|_3______|_________|________|________|________|
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^ ___ ___ ___ ___ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
___________________________________________________________________________v___v________________
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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|______0_1|_3______|___3_5_0|_1______|___1_3__|________|_________|________|_________|________|__
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|*________|_2______|________|_0_____0|________|_2___0__|_2_______|_3______|_4_______|_5______|__
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ___ ^
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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__4_____4|_5____5__|_7______|_4_______|___2_2__|_2___5____|_________|_0______|________|_2______|
__5______|______5__|________|_2___"2__|_____2__|_____5____|__0______|_____3__|_2______|________|
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^ ^ ^ ___
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Carre. Alemande. Leading measures: 61. AC23: Page 2 of 2.
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________________________________________________________________________________________________
________|_______||______________________________________________________________________________
________|_______||______________________________________________________________________________
_2_____2|_,2___*||______________________________________________________________________________
________|__2___*||______________________________________________________________________________
_____0__|_______||______________________________________________________________________________
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