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Title: Passacalles por la B
Composer: Gaspar Sanz
Source: Instruccion de Musica sobre la Guitarra Española
Location: Tomo 3, page 7, 2nd piece ("b") on page.
Short ID: gs3.7b
Date: 1676
Tuning: Modern guitar (A d g b e')
Time sig: C (presumed)
FOR MODERN GUITAR: The tablature presented here is intended for playing on
the modern guitar. Mainly, notes sounding an octave above 4th and 5th
string bass notes have been substituted in where it seemed "right". The
5th string has been eliminated from all strums. Sanz did not use bourdons.
To see all the changes, set up the Baroque and modern guitar versions in
separate windows and flicker back and forth.
M32-33 In the original these formed a single measure. Clearly, a measure's
worth of music is missing from this variation. I opened up some space
between the adjacent notes which sounded the most disconnected to my
non-authoritative ears. So, "fill in the blank"! If anyone can take a
stab at Sanz's intent here, please let us know. Until then, you might
simply drop mm32-33, that is, jump from m31 to m34.
Explanation of symbols:
" = trill, generally starting on upper neighbor.
# = vibrato.
, = mordent, main note to lower neighbor and back to the main note.
^ = up strum (toward treble).
v = down strum (toward bass).
z = rest symbol.
~~~~~~ = slur the notes above the wavy line.
Leading measures in Sanz's original tablature:
1 21 34 51. Last measure is 70.
Passacalles por la B
Gaspar Sanz
Modern guitar (A d g b e') Leading measures: 1 11 21 28 34 44 55. Short ID: gs3.7b
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Passacalles por la B. Leading measures: 67. Page 2
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