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:  AC47b.
Title:     Menuet.
Composer:  Anthoine Carre.
Source:    Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
           Page 47. 
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): 
  M15 p1s2 original had a backwards comma after the fret number.  Assumed here 
  to be a regular comma, indicating a mordent.

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.  Thus, discrepancies may be of interest.  
    M17 beat1 rhythm: Treble part has dotted-8th 16th.  Guitar 1 has 8th 8th.

  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: m18p1.
    DO STRUM the 1st string in the following chords.  Write "0" in the 
      tablature at: m1p1 m5p3.
    Note that the melody note is found WITHIN the chord at: m15p2s3.

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.
    M4 p2-3s1.
    M12 p2-3s1.
    M16 p2-3s1.
    M17 p1s1.
  Take a moment to fill out the 16th-note beams.

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. 

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 12 18.  Last measure is 18.


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                                   Menuet.                                 AC47b: Page 1 of 1.
  Baroque guitar (A D G B E).  Leading measures: 1 11.                         Anthoine Carre.

   ^      ^          ___     ^  ___        ^  ^          ___     ^  __ ^                 __     
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_______0|_1___3|_"3____3_5|_"2__0_2_3|_0____|_1___3|_"3____3_5|_"2___3_3__||____0_1|_"3___1_0|__
___1_3__|_1____|__5__6____|__3_______|_1_3_1|_3___3|__5__6____|__3_____3__||__3___3|__5_____1|__
________|_2____|__5______5|__2_______|_____2|_2____|__5______5|__2_______*||*_0____|_________|__
___2____|_3___2|__________|_________2|_2___2|______|__________|__________*||*_____3|_________|__
___3___3|______|__________|__________|______|_____2|__________|________2__||__2____|________0|__
________|______|__________|__________|______|______|__________|___________||_______|_________|__

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__2______|_0_____2|_0_____|______5_0|____2__|__________|______0____|_______*||__________________
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