This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Gaspar Sanz's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.
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Short ID: GS211.
Title: Passacalles por La O
Composer: Gaspar Sanz
Source: Instruccion; Tomo 2, page 11.
Date: 1697.
Facsimile: Minkoff, 1976.
Tuning: Baroque guitar (ADGBE).
Time sig: 3.
Fixes, modifications, comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
The "O" in the title is the alfabeto designation of the G minor chord that
opens the piece. Sanz does not use any alfabeto in this piece; he shows all
fret numbers in all chords explicitly.
M8,15,57,59. Original tablature shows no strum tick marks in these
measures. I assume strums were intended.
M25p1s5. I wonder if Sanz intended "5" instead of "0" but I left the "0".
M91-92. In the original tablature, the bar line separating these two
measures is misplaced. Sanz places it after what is given here as the
first chord in m92.
When Sanz indicates vibrato on a chord, he shows only one vibrato symbol "#"
below the chord. I assume the vibrato applies to all fingered notes and
provide a separate "#" for each fingered note of the chord here.
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.
M85 p1s3-p3s1 (means ringing notes?) p4s2.
M86p4s5.
M87p4s3.
M88p4s4.
M89p2s4.
M90p2s1.
M91p2s5.
M92p2S1.
M93p4s4.
M94p4s4.
M95p4s3.
M95p4s5.
Take a moment to fill out the 16th-note beams.
Explanation of symbols:
" = trill, generally starting on upper neighbor.
# = vibrato.
, = mordent, main note to lower neighbor and back to the main note.
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.
For a nicer appearance, redraw the arrowhead right at the top or bottom of
its stem and white-out the printed one.
Octave doublings: If you play this on a modern guitar, consider adding or
substituting the octave above any note played on the 4th or 5th string.
Leading measures in Sanz's original tablature:
1 19 37 48 61 81 93 108. Last measure is 122.
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Passacalles por La O GS211: Page 1 of 3.
Baroque guitar (ADGBE). Leading measures: 1 12 23 33 39 45. Gaspar Sanz
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Sanz. Passacalles. Leading measures: 51 58 69 79 87 93. GS211: Page 2 of 3.
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Sanz. Passacalles. Leading measures: 101 111 121. GS211: Page 3 of 3.
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