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Cavatina - Stanley Myers
theme music from 'The Deer Hunter'
solo guitar version, arrangement and fingering by John Williams
tabbed by Dan Evison, typed by Mike Bremford - Michael.Bremford@comp.vuw.ac.nz
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LHF added + some reformatting + corrections to notes and fingering, 20 Dec 2001
measure numbers and repetition corrected, 22 Apr 2003
info re measure 5 added to Comments, 24 Apr 2003 - weed@wussu.com
info re measure 19 added to Comments, 3 March 2010 - weed@wussu.com
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the tab is based on the solo guitar sheet version (Robbins, London, 1971)- this
differs from the recording - see Comments below the tab for more info
Roman Numerals indicate barre positions
Left-Hand Fingering is below the tab
play measures 1-51, then 1-24, then 76-87
Time 3/4
1. CIV CVI
G+*-------------4-----------4----------+--------------8-----------8----------+
D+*-------6-----------------------6----+--------6-----------------------6----+
4 2
3 1 2 1 3 1 1 3 4 3 1
3. CIX CIX
B+-10h-12-------------10---------------+-------------------10----------------+
2 4 1
1 3 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 3
5. CVII CVII
4 1 3 1 4
1 1 2 4 2 1 1 3 1 2 1 3
[see Comments below]
7.
E+--7----------------------------------+--------------------------------5p-4-+
1 4 3
3 2 4 2 3 4 2 1 2
9. CII CII
3 1
1 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 3
11.
1
2 3 2 2
13. CII
1 4
1 4 2 2 4 1 2 1 3 1 3
15.
1 4 1 2 1 3 1 4
17. CIX CIX
E+-12----------------------------------+-12----------------------------11p-9-+
4 4 3 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
19. CIX CVII
E+--9----11h12\11----------------------+--------------------------9-----7----+
1 3 4 4 3 2 1 1 3 2 3 4 4
[see Comments below]
21. CII CVII
4 4 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 3
23. @
G+--------------------8----------------+--------------4---------------------*+
D+--------------9-----------9----------+--------2---------------------------*+
4
1 3 2 3 1 1 3 2 1
25. (CII) CV
G+*-------------2-----------2----------+--------------6-----------6----------+
D+*-------2-----------------------2----+--------7-----------------------7----+
3 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 4 2 1
27. CVI
1 3
2 4 1 3 1 4 1 4 2 4
29.
3 4
1 2 1 1 2
31.
4 2 2 4 4 1 1 2 2 4 1 2
3
2
1
33.
4
1 1 1 3 3 1 1 2 4 1 1 2
35.
1 4 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 2
37. CII CIII
1 4 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 3 2
39. CI CIII
4 1 1 1 4 4 1 3 1 3 1
2 1 2
41. CI
4 1 1 1 1 4 4
2 3 1 1
43. CII
2 1 1 1 2 3 1 4 1 2
45.
4
2 3 1 4 1 3 2 1 2
47.
4 3 1 4 3 3 4 4
2
49. CII (CI)
2 2 4 1 1 2 1
1 1 3 4 1 1
51. D.C. al @ Coda
E+--------------------0-----4-----5---||
B+--0-----------0---------------------||
G+--------1--------------------------*||
D+-----------------------------------*||
A+------------------------------------||
E+------------------------------------||
1 4 5
@
76. (CII) CII
3 1
1 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 3
78.
1
2 3 2 2
80. CII CII
4 1 4
1 3 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 3 1 2
82. (CI)
1 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
84. CIX CII
3 4 3 4
arp. 2
arp.
86. CII tenuto
E+--------2--4--2----------------------+--0---------------------------------||
B+--5----------------------5-----------+------------------------------------||
G+--2----------------------------------+--2-----------4---------------------||
D+--4----------------------------------+--4-----------6---------------------||
A+--2----------------------------------+------------------------------------||
E+-------------------------------------+--0---------------------------------||
4 1 3 1 4 1 1
2 3 3
arp.
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Comments
according to posts on the newsgroup rec.music.classical.guitar John Williams
did a double-take recording, so there is probably no definitively correct
solo version in tab or in sheet - "Although it won't always be technically
possible to hold on to the melody as written, it has been put down like it is
in order to convey the feeling of legato to be aimed at" (from the sheet)
eg measure 5 - the broken chord - the sheet has
B,A,E,A,E,A - the record has B,A,C#,E,C#,A (which is playable?) -
5. CVII
measure 19 - a suggestion from Manabu Saeki - manabusaeki@hotmail.com
19.
E+--9----11h12\11----------------------+
3 4 4 4 2
1 2 3
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