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

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Short ID:  AM23.
Title:     Romanesca: o guardame las vacas.
Composer:  Alonso Mudarra.
Source:    Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela...  
           Libro I, folio XXIIII.
Date:      1546.
Facsimile: Chanterelle, p71.

Tuning:    Guitarra al temple nuevo (d g b e').
Time sig:  Quickly. ("Phi" on Mudarra's 1st line. See general Mudarra comments.)  

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string):
  All rhythm values have been quartered.
  M14r4s1 original showed fret 9. Changed to 0 here. 
  M20 original ended with single bar line. Changed to double bar here.

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  Fermata on very last chord.

For the fun of it:
  Switch to vihuela tuning and play the Narvaez version (from Frederick Noad's 
  Renaissance Guitar anthology, for example.)  Without retuning, play this 
  version by Mudarra, but on the middle 4 strings. This very nicely 
  transposes Mudarra's piece to the same key as Narvaez's.

Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature:
  1 8 14 22. Last measure is 30.


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                       Romanesca: o guardame las vacas.                     AM23: Page 1 of 1.
  Guitarra al temple nuevo (d g b e').  Leading measures: 1 8 13 20 27.        Alonso Mudarra.

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