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: AC46.
Title: Danse pour deux arlequains.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 46.
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):
None.
Comparison of Guitar 1 melody with the Treble part:
Pieces in this big suite have four parts: Guitar 1 and Guitar 2; and Treble
and Bass parts written in music notation. The upper line of Guitar 1
and the Treble part are so consistently identical, that it seems they are
supposed to be identical. IF you want the Guitar 1 melody to correspond
EXACTLY to the Treble part...
DO NOT STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "." in the
tablature at: m1p2 m9p1 m16p1 m18p1.
DO STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "0" in the
tablature at: m6p2 m10p1 m12p1.
If using a modern guitar, ADD the octave above the 5th string note at
these places: m15p2.
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.
None.
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).
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 18.
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Danse pour deux arlequains. AC46: Page 1 of 1.
Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 12. Anthoine Carre.
^ ___ ^ ^ ^ ^ __ ^
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________________________________________________________________________________________________
________|_"0_____0|_1___0|_______|_______|_______|______|_______|________||______3|_"0______|___
_____1_3|______3__|_3____|_"3___1|_"0___1|_,3_1__|___0_1|_3_"0__|_1______||__1_3__|__1___3_1|_1_
___0____|_________|_2____|__0___0|__0____|_______|_2____|____0__|_______*||*______|_________|___
_____2__|_________|______|_______|_______|__0_2__|_3____|_______|_2_____*||*_2___2|_________|_2_
_____3__|__3______|______|______3|_______|____3__|_____0|_______|_3______||__3____|__0______|_3_
________|_________|______|_______|_______|_______|______|_______|________||_______|_________|___
__ ^ ^
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________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______|_______|_______|______|______|_0_____|________||________________________________________
_"3___1|_"0___1|______0|_____0|_1___3|___"3__|_1______||________________________________________
_______|__0____|_"2____|_0____|______|____0__|_______*||________________________________________
__0____|_______|__3____|______|_2____|_______|_2_____*||________________________________________
_______|_______|__0____|___0__|_3___2|_______|_3______||________________________________________
_______|_______|_______|______|______|_______|________||________________________________________