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Short ID: AM14. Title: Romanesca: o guardame las vacas. Composer: Alonso Mudarra. Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela... Libro I, folio XVII. Date: 1546. Facsimile: Chanterelle, p57. Tuning: Vihuela tuning. Time sig: Slowly. (Slashed "C" on Mudarra's 1st line. See general Mudarra comments.) Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): All rhythm values have been halved. M49r1s1 original showed fret 9 (upside-down 6.) Changed to 6 here. Tablature elements to be added by hand: Let ring as long as possible (see general Mudarra comments): M37r2s5. Fermata on very last chord. Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature: 1 7 12 19 25 31 37 43 49. Last measure is 50. *** Download and edit out all material above and below the tablature. *** See my printing tips in the page, "General comments on the tablature." *** Print out starting with the title line below. Romanesca: o guardame las vacas. AM14: Page 1 of 2. Vihuela tuning. Leading measures: 1 9 16 21 29 34. 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