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: AC30.
Title: Sarabande.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 30.
Date: ca. 1690?
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: 3.
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
M11p3 original had a slur-like symbol centered under the string-1 fret
letter. Is this an ornament, possibly a mordent? (Carre uses ","
following the fret letter for mordent elsewhere.)
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.
No slurs.
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 (none in this piece).
. = do not strum this string in the chord.
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. Last measure is 16.
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Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 11. Anthoine Carre.
^ __ ^ __ ^ ^ __ __ ^ ^ ^ __
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___1_3_5|_"0___1__|_._0_1|_"1___0_1|_5_6_8|_3___5_6|_1_"3___5|_5______||______5|_"1___0__|_5_6__
___3___3|__2_____3|_3____|__1_____1|_3____|_1______|_3__0____|_2______||__2____|__3_____3|______
___2____|_________|_2____|________2|_____5|_______3|_________|_2_____*||*_2____|__2______|___3__
_______3|________0|______|________3|_3_0__|_2______|____0____|_2_____*||*_2____|________0|_3____
________|__0______|___3__|_________|______|_3______|_2_______|________||_______|_________|______
________|_________|______|_________|______|________|_________|________||_______|_________|______
__ ^ __ ^ __ __
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________________________________________________________________________________________________
_5|_"3___1_1|_______|_____0___|_3_"1___0|_"0________||__________________________________________
__|__5_____1|___0_"2|_3_____"2|____3____|__2___3_3__||__________________________________________
__|__5_____2|_2_0__2|________2|_0__2____|__________*||__________________________________________
__|________3|_3_____|_________|_________|________0_*||__________________________________________
__|_________|_0____0|_1_______|_________|__0________||__________________________________________
__|_________|_______|_________|_________|___________||__________________________________________