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Short ID: FC18.
Title: Allemande.
Composer: Francois Campion.
Source: Nouvelles decouvertes sur la Guitarre.
Page 11.
Date: 1705.
Facsimile: Minkoff (1977), page 32.
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):
M15r1 strum shown as 8th. Changed to 4er 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.
M2 r2-3s1, r5-6s2.
M3 r4-5s1, r6-7s1.
M5 r3-5s2.
M6 r4-5s2, r8-9s2.
M7 r2-4s2, r5-6s1.
M8 r4-5s1.
M12 r1-2s2, r3-4s2.
M17 r3-5s2.
M24 r8-9s4.
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.
For example, at M21r1 be sure to add open string 1 to the chord.
Take a moment to re-draw the ^ arrowhead right at the top of the associated
stem, just under the beam if a beam is present.
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.
Trill: M29r3s1 upper neighbor shown to be fret b (=1).
Octave doublings: To keep certain musical lines intact on the modern guitar,
consider adding or substituting the next octave up. For example, see:
m21r6.
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?
Leading measures in Campion's original tablature:
1 5 7 11 14 18 21 23 26 29. Last measure is 30.
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Bb D G C F (tuning 1). Leading measures: 1 6 12 19 24 30. Francois Campion.
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