Tablature and notation for the low-G ukulele, transcribed from music written in the 16th - 17th centuries for the Renaissance lute and guitar. The arrangements are free to download, and are suitable also for the Renaissance guitar. The blog is dedicated to those of us "whose loue of Musicke exceedes their skill."
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Saturday, 22 July 2017
Dowland: Suzannah galliard (P 91)
This is a lovely little galliard, and not too difficult to play. I particularly enjoy the sweet harmonies.
I have inserted the chord names on the tabs, although I realise that such an approach is as anachronistic as the illustration above. Nevertheless, I reckon that there are 13 chords in this short piece.
I have made the arrangement so that it can be played as much as possible by holding the chord shapes, and moving the appropriate finger. If you are a used to strumming this should be a help. In bar 13, the last (split) beat can be played by forming a 1-3-4-3 chord (a sort of unrooted C7, though that's not how John Dowland would have seen it).
Anyway, I hope you like it as much as I do.
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