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: AC54.
Title: Tombau.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 54.
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):
M16 original shows a double-length measure, which is retained here.
M21-22 original shows a tie connecting m21p3s5 with m22p1s5 (bass notes C.)
Richard Pinnell, in his dissertation on Corbetta, notes that this Tombau
is similar to Corbetta's sarabande on page 8 of his 1671 book.
M22p3s3 original shows a trill, which doesn't seem possible. It is retained
here for you to solve in your own way. At the same place in the Corbetta
sarabande (see above) Pinnell shows a trill on the following 8th note.
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.
M10 p2-3s1.
M14 p3-4s1.
M16 p7-8s1.
M17 p1s1.
M20 p3s4.
M21 p1-2s2.
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 15 19. Last measure is 22.
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Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 10 18. Anthoine Carre.
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_______v________v_______________________________________________________________________________
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___5_____3|________|_1___1_3|_"0_____1|_1______|__1______|_3______|________6|________10|________
___3_____3|_______.|________|_________|_1______|__1______|_.______|_________|__________|________
__________|________|________|_________|________|_________|________|_________|__________|________
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_____|_________||_________|__________|__________|_________|___________________|___________|_____
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______|_________|_3______|______3____|_________||_______________________________________________
_0___0|_1_"0____|_3_3____|_4_3__3____|_________||_______________________________________________
______|_________|___4____|_____"5___4|_,5_____*||_______________________________________________
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______|________3|_2______|_3____3____|__3______||_______________________________________________
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