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: AC44.
Title: Ouverture.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 44.
Date: ca. 1690?
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: No time signature, but 4 quarter notes per measure.
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
M2p1s5, m15p1s5 original fret letter looked more like "e" than "d", which
would sharp the note to C#. Interpreted as "d" (fret 3 = C) here, since
it's a standard C chord. It seems the engraver occasionally rotated the "d"
another 90 to 180 degrees counter-clockwise, either by mistake or for some
reason beyond me. The "e" at m7p1s4 really is an "e" (fret 4 = F#), based
on comparison with the bass part of the ensemble.
Comparison of Guitar 1 melody with the Treble part:
Pieces in this big suite have four parts: Guitar 1 and Guitar 2; and Treble
and Bass parts written in music notation. The upper line of Guitar 1
and the Treble part are so consistently identical, that it seems they are
supposed to be identical. IF you want the Guitar 1 melody to correspond
EXACTLY to the Treble part...
DO NOT STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "." in the
tablature at: m2p1 m15p1.
If using a modern guitar, ADD the octave above the 5th string note at
these places: m7p4 m7p5.
Note that the melody note is found WITHIN the chord at: m5p1s3.
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 p1s1, p4s2, p7s3.
M10 p1-2s1.
M11 p1-2s1. (Slur looked like a chute, which is highly unlikely here.)
M12 p4s1.
M13 p2s3.
Take a moment to fill out the 16th-note beams.
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__________|
|___________| |____________|
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 4 8 12. Last measure is 15.
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Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 8 14. Anthoine Carre.
_______ _______ ^ ^ __ ___ ____ __ ^ __ ^ ^ __ ___ __
|-|-|-| |-|-|-| | | | | | | |. | | | |.-| |. | | | |. | | |. | | | | | |. |
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___3_1_0__________|_______3|_5_0_1___3|___0_____________|_._________|_3_"2___2_,3|___0_________|
_________3_1_0____|_1___3_1|___2______|_3_______1_"0____|_3___"1___3|_3__3_______|_3___1_______|
___2___________2_0|________|__________|____________0___2|_2_________|____2______0|_2______0____|
__________________|_2_____2|_3_2_0____|_____"0_____0____|___________|____________|_4___________|
__________________|_3_____3|__________|_2_______________|______0____|_2__________|_______"1___0|
__________________|________|__________|_________________|___________|____________|_____________|
__ __ ___ ___ ___ ^ __ ___ __ ____ ___ ____ __
|. | |. | | | | | | | | | |. | | | | | |. | | |.-| | | |.-| |. | | | |
________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________|____3_1_"0_____|_1_0_"2___3_5|_5_7_8_"3___5|_5_____0_1_0______|__________3|_"0__
_______0_"2___3|_,3_3______3_,1|______3_____5|________5____|___"3________"3__1|_"0________|_____
__"2___________|_______________|______2______|________5____|__________________|__0___2_0__|_____
___3______2____|__0____________|_3___________|_____________|_3____________0___|__0_______2|_____
___0___________|____2____3____0|____________4|_____0_______|__________________|___________|__3__
_______________|_______________|_____________|_____________|__________________|___________|_____
__ ^
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_,1_______|_____||______________________________________________________________________________
____"3___1|_1___||______________________________________________________________________________
_____0____|_____||______________________________________________________________________________
__________|_2___||______________________________________________________________________________
__________|_3___||______________________________________________________________________________
__________|_____||______________________________________________________________________________