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Short ID: FC14.
Title: Allemande a 4 tems.
Composer: Francois Campion.
Source: Nouvelles decouvertes sur la Guitarre.
2nd manuscript page inserted after page 10.
Date: 1705.
Facsimile: Minkoff (1977), page 28.
Tuning: Bb D G C F (tuning 1).
Time sig: C with slash ("cut time" symbol).
Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string):
M16r10s4 original showed messy correction. Presumed here to be fret b (=1).
M18 original presents a problem. It shows either 4.5 beats or 5 depending
on whether or not a misplaced dot applies to the first 4er rhythm. There
is also a legibility problem. The original looks something like:
^ __ __ __ __ __
.| | |- | |- |
__b___b___c___*_*_____________b___c___
|__c_________________c___*_e__________|
|__c___________c_______________c___a__|
|__a__________________________________|
|__.___c___a_________a___a____________|
Blob 1 looks like "e" or "c". Blob 2 gives no hint of what it was supposed
to be. Blob 3 looks most like "e". That makes no sense, so "c" is the next
best guess. I ignore the dot to the left of rhythm stem 1. (It would have
had more weight if this tablature were engraved, giving the dot a reason
for being on the wrong side.) I deleted everything at rhythm 6 completely.
Those notes are repeated, anyway. I hate measures like this in Baroque
guitar manuscripts. Tell me what it's supposed to be.
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 r3-4s1, r6-7s1.
M5 r1s1, r3-4s2, r6s4, r10s2, r13s4, r15s5.
M6 r1s2, r5s2, r7-8s1.
M7 r2-3s1, r4-5s1, r6-7s3, r8s3, r11s1.
M8 r2s5, r5s1, r7-8s2.
M12 r3-4s3, r7s5.
M13 r4-5s3 (original started on s4.)
M14 r2-3s2, r5s3, r8-9s2, r8s5. (Original does not show 2nd slur.)
M15 r2-3s3 (original started on s2), r5-6s2 (original started on s3).
M16 r2s5, r5-6s4, r8s3, r11-12s2.
M17 r5s4, r8-9s2, r11-12s2.
M18 r4s1, r6s2.
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.
It's worth re-drawing the ^ arrowhead right at the top of the associated
stem.
Repeat path: repeat from m20 back to m10r4.
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.
z = rest. Fill in to make a solid block.
Octave doublings: To keep certain musical lines intact on the modern guitar,
consider adding or substituting the next octave up. For example, see:
m3r5, m11r3, m12r7-8 and m18r3.
Performance style: I am unclear about the appropriateness of inegales rhythms
in this piece. If 8th note passages are played inegales (which sounds right
to me), how do you treat written-out 16th notes?
Suggested simplification (if need be):
______________
|____________|
|_"4______"4_|
|__2_ to ____|
|__________7_|
|____________|
|____________|
Leading measures in Campion's original tablature:
1 4 6 7 10 12 14 16 18 20. Last measure is 21.
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Bb D G C F (tuning 1). Leading measures: 1 6 10 14 18. Francois Campion.
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