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Title: Passacalles por La O
Composer: Gaspar Sanz
Source: Instruccion de Musica sobre la Guitarra Española
Location: Tomo 2, page 11.
Short ID: gs2.11
Date: 1675
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E)
Time sig: 3
FOR BAROQUE GUITAR: This tablature is faithful to Sanz's original for the
Baroque guitar. It has been flipped "right-side up." Continual rhythm
information is shown. If you have a modern guitar, consider adding or
substituting the octave above any note played on the 4th or 5th string.
In strummed chords, add as many open strings as sound good. Or, try
the ready-to-go version for MODERN GUITAR.
Fixes to the original (m=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
The "O" in the title is the alfabeto designation of the G minor chord that
opens the piece. Sanz does not use any alfabeto in this piece; he shows all
fret numbers in all chords explicitly.
M8,15,57,59 original shows no strum tick marks in these measures. I assume
strums were intended.
M25p1s5. I wonder if Sanz intended "5" instead of "0" but I left the "0".
M85 p1s3-p3s1. Slur covers notes on different strings; let ring?
M91-92. In the original tablature, the bar line separating these two
measures is misplaced. Sanz places it after what is given here as the
first chord in m92.
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.
Modern guitar version:
M51-54,67,69. Sanz uses the campanelas effect here. I could not find a
satisfactory cross-string reworking for the modern guitar and let the notes
run conventionally.
Leading measures in Sanz's original tablature:
1 19 37 48 61 81 93 108. Last measure is 122.
Passacalles por La O
Gaspar Sanz
Baroque guitar (A D G B E) Leading measures: 1 12 23 33 39 45 51. Short ID: gs2.11
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Passacalles. Leading measures: 58 69 79 87 93 101 111. Page 2
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~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~
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~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~
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~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~
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_________|___||_______|_________|_________|_________|____||________|__________|___________|_____
Passacalles. Leading measures: 121. Page 3
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_#5___2|__3_____||_()___________________________________________________________________________
_#3___1|__3_____||_()()_________________________________________________________________________
_______|________||_()()()_______________________________________________________________________
_#4___0|________||_()()_________________________________________________________________________
_______|_,1_____||_()___________________________________________________________________________
_______|________||______________________________________________________________________________