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Short ID: FC12.
Title: Sarabande.
Composer: Francois Campion.
Source: Nouvelles decouvertes sur la Guitarre.
Page 10.
Date: 1705.
Facsimile: Minkoff (1977), page 26.
Tuning: Bb D G C F (tuning 1).
Time sig: 3.
Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): none.
Tablature elements to be added by hand:
No slurs in this piece.
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.
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.
$ = petite reprise symbols. Repeat the material between the signs.
Octave doublings: To keep certain musical lines intact on the modern guitar,
consider adding or substituting the next octave up. For example, see:
m13r2.
Performance style: there's only one 8th-note pairs (see m33), but consider
playing it inegales, that is, as dotted 8ths or "swing" 8ths (triplet feel).
Suggested simplification (if need be):
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|_"4______"4_|
|__2_ to ____|
|__________7_|
|____________|
|____________|
Leading measures in Campion's original tablature:
1 6 12 18. Last measure is 20.
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Bb D G C F (tuning 1). Leading measures: 1 12. Francois Campion.
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___2____|__2___3_2|_0_2__|________|_2_3__|_3______|___"0____|_.______||__2_0__|_____0_2|_3_3_2|_
________|__2______|_2___2|_3___2_0|_0____|_3______|____2___3|_3_____*||*_3___3|_2______|_0_2__|_
________|_________|___4_0|_5______|_____3|_1___0__|____3____|_3_____*||*_3____|________|______|_
________|__.___2_0|______|________|______|_______2|_0_______|_0______||_______|________|_____0|_
________|_________|______|________|______|________|_________|________||_______|________|______|_
__ ___ __ ___ __ ^ ^ __ ^ __ ^
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__"0_____0__|_3_2_0|________|_1_2___4|_"4___2_2|___2_3_2|_3______|_0__0____|_2________||________
____________|_____2|_0______|_2_3_0__|__2_____2|___2____|_3______|____2____|_________*||________
___3___3_1_0|______|________|________|________0|___0____|_1_____0|____0____|_________*||________
____________|_2_0__|________|________|_________|_____2_0|________|_________|__________||________
____________|______|________|________|_________|_$______|________|_________|_______$__||________