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Short ID: AC50.
Title: Menuet 2.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 50.
Date: ca. 1690?
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: 3.
Note: Carre called this piece "Menuet"; I added the "2" to distinguish it
from the first Menuet in the suite.
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
NOTE: M7 rhythm in this guitar part differs from all the other parts of the
ensemble, in particular the treble part which almost always corresponds
exactly to the melody line of the guitar 1 part. There is also a rare
discrepancy in the two melody lines in m10.
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.
M10: Treble part has 3 descending 4er notes, F E D. Guitar 1 has 2 notes
in 4er half rhythm, F D.
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: m16p1.
DO STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "0" in the
tablature at: m8p1.
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 (none in this piece).
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 6 11. Last measure is 16.
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Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 12. Anthoine Carre.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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________________________________________________________________________________________________
___3_"0_1|_3___0|_"1____|_"0___0|_3_0_1|_3___0|_"1____|_________||__3_3_"0|_1_____|_______|_____
___1_____|_1____|__1___3|_______|_1____|______|__1___3|__1______||__1_____|_1_"3__|_"0___1|_3___
_________|______|__2____|_______|______|______|__2____|________*||*_______|_2_____|__0____|_0___
___2____0|_2____|__3____|__2____|_2___0|_2____|__3____|_"2_____*||*_2_____|_3__4__|_______|_____
___3__3__|_____3|_______|_______|_3____|______|_______|__3______||__3____3|_______|_______|_2___
_________|______|_______|_______|______|______|_______|_________||________|_______|_______|_____
^ ^ ^
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______v_________________________________________________________________________________________
__|_3___0|_5___0|_______|________||_____________________________________________________________
__|_1____|_3____|_"3___1|_1______||_____________________________________________________________
_0|______|_2____|__0____|_______*||_____________________________________________________________
__|_2____|______|_______|_2_____*||_____________________________________________________________
__|_3____|_____3|_______|_3______||_____________________________________________________________
__|______|______|_______|________||_____________________________________________________________