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

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Short ID:  AC17.
Title:     Sarabande Plainte.
Composer:  Anthoine Carre.
Source:    Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
           Page 17. 
Date:      ca. 1690?

Tuning:    Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig:  3. 

Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String): 
  Richard Pinnell, in his dissertation on Corbetta, notes that this Sarabande 
  Plainte is the same as Corbetta's sarabande on p65 of his 1671 book.

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 p3-4s3.
    M3 p3s2.
    M8 p3s3.
    M11 p3s2.
    M12 p3s2, p5s5-m13p3s5.
    M15 p3s2.
    M16 p2s3.
    
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. 
  ( = "chute."  A note in a chord is reached by a slur from its lower 
      neighbor.  It is not crushed like a mordent.  For example:  

         ^ ___ ___          ___ ___ ___  
         | | | | |          | | | | | |  
      _____v_______       __^___v_______
      |_(3________|       |_2_3________|
      |__3________|       |_3__________|
      |______3_2_0|   =   |_______3_2_0|
      |___________|       |____________|
      |__1________|       |_1__________|
      |___________|       |____________|


  | = play the bottom note and then the upper note.  For example:
              __          ___    __
         | |.  |          | | |.  |                                                                  
       __________       _____________
       |_3_3___2|       |___3_3___2_|
       |________|       |___________|
       |_|______|   =   |___________|
       |___0____|       |_____0_____|
       |_3______|       |_3_________|
       |________|       |___________|

Octave doublings: If you are playing on a modern, single-string guitar, 
  consider adding or substituting the next octave up almost everywhere 
  you see a 4th- or 5th-string note. 

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

Leading measures in Carre's original tablature:
  1 6 12 17.  Last measure is 21.


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                              Sarabande Plainte.                            AC17: Page 1 of 1.
  Baroque guitar (A D G B E).  Leading measures: 1 9 18.                       Anthoine Carre.

    ^ ___  ___        __  ^ ___  ___  ^ ___ ___   ^    ___    ^ ___  ^     __  ^     __  ___    
    | | |  | |  |  |.  |  | | |  | |  | | | | |   |  | | |  | | | |  |  |.  |  |  |.  |  | |    
______v_________________________________v_______________________________________________________
___(3_________|_5_______|_3_________|_1_____5_6|_(8____3_5|_6_1___1|_3_______|_1_______|________
____3_________|_3_"3____|_3_1_3_"1__|_1___8____|__5_______|_6_3_4__|_4_"1___1|_3_______|___1____
________3_"2_0|________5|_3________3|_2________|__5_______|___3____|_3_______|_2_"3___2|_3______
______________|_4_______|_5_2_______|_3________|__5_"3____|_0_3____|_1_______|____0___1|________
____1_________|_________|_5_________|__________|__________|___1____|_1__0____|_________|________
______________|_________|___________|__________|__________|________|_________|_________|________

  ^  __             ^ ___ ___   ^ ___ ___  ___     __    ^ ___    ___  ___  ___  ___      ^ ___ 
  |.  |  | | |      | | | | |   | | | | |  | |  |.  |  | | | |  | | |  | |  | |  | | |  | | | | 
__________________________________v_____________________________________________________________
__1____|________||__1_______1|__1________|___________|___.____|___________|___________|___3___3|
_"1____|________||__3___3_4__|_"1___1_3__|___________|___3___3|___1_3_"1__|________1_3|_3_3_6__|
__2___2|_3_3___*||*_3________|__2________|______0____|___2____|_0_0______3|___2_,3___3|___4____|
__3____|___0___*||*_3________|__3________|______2___3|_3_3_0__|_1_1_______|_0_________|___3____|
_______|_1______||__1_1______|__________0|_1_3_"1____|_0______|___________|___________|_1_3____|
_______|________||___________|___________|___________|________|___________|___________|________|

     ^ ___  ___ ___ ^        __    ^                                                            
   | | | |  | | | | |  |  |.  |  | | |                                                          
________________^_v__________________v__________________________________________________________
_____5_3_5|___0_2_3_5|_3_"3___2|_3_3____||______________________________________________________
__,4_4____|_____3___7|_________|___3____||______________________________________________________
___5_5____|_____2___7|_|_______|_0_____*||______________________________________________________
_____3____|_0________|____0____|_______*||______________________________________________________
_____3____|__________|_3_______|___1____||______________________________________________________
__________|__________|_________|________||______________________________________________________