This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Francois Campion's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.

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Short ID:  FC66.
Title:     Menuet.
Composer:  Francois Campion.
Source:    Nouvelles decouvertes sur la Guitarre.
           Page 33.
Date:      1705.
Facsimile: Minkoff (1977), page 60.

Tuning:    B C G C E (tuning 4).
Time sig:  3.

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): none.

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.
    M1 r1-2s1.
    M2 r2s1.
    M3 r1-2s1, r3s1, r5-6s2.
    M5 r1-2s2.
    M6 r2s2.
    M7 r1-2s1, r3s1, r5-6s2.
    M9 r1s5.
    M11 r2s1, r4-5s2.
    M13 r1s1, r3-4s2.
    M15 r1-2s2.    

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. 

Performance style: consider playing the 8th notes inegales, that is, as dotted 
  8ths or "swing" 8ths (triplet feel).

Leading measures in Campion's original tablature:
  1 6 12. Last measure is 16.


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                                    Menuet.                                 FC66: Page 1 of 1.
  B C G C E (tuning 4).  Leading measures: 1 9.                              Francois Campion.

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