This is one of those magic pieces that are immediately pleasing to the ear regardless of your main taste in music, simple and effortless, effective and unusually catchy. There are several copies from historical sources, one in the Barbe Manuscript, where it is entitled Le caquet des femmes (female gossiping) and ascribed to Nicolas de Merville, and another from the Milleran Manuscript, where neither authorship nor title are given.

While the late Baroque sarabandes were quite slow, earlier ones had a faster tempo. This one should be played not too slow - depending on your idea of how gossip goes... - but not too fast to lose some of the subleties of the music.

Adapting Baroque lute music to the 6-string guitar is a difficult art, and many people would argue a useless one. A good deal of the charm of this particular piece is that it is easy to play on the baroque lute. The fingerings don't leave the first position and the chord positions are all very common. It is a D-minor piece played on a D-minor tuning  instrument. Reproducing that ease of playing on the guitar is the tricky part.

I am giving two transcriptions in regular notation here, one in the original key, that except for the low C, can be played on the guitar in its original tuning with a dropped D on the bass, and one transposed to the key of F# minor using a somewhat unusual tuning for the guitar:   EBF#C#AE (from the treble up, or if you prefer: EAC#F#BE from the bass down). There are several ideas behind this: maximize the number of open string notes, avoid wide stretches of the hand, and adapt the tonality to fit the tessiture of the guitar.

The Baroque lute is a bass instrument that sounds best in the bass register. Its highest note is an F (13th fret on the guitar) but very few pieces go all the way there. So transposing the music up a couple of steps for the guitar can make sense, particularly since that also extends the bass register by that much. Every case is different of course, but in the end what works is what feels right to the hand and the ear.

I personally like to experiment with unusual tunings - it seems to free the mind from all those acquired reflexes and it makes it easier to concentrate on listening to the music one is playing. DjangoTab has several tools that can be helpful in exploring the potential of unusual tunings: you can easily transpose a piece from one key to the other and the software can recalculate fingerings automatically if you change the tuning of an instrument. It will default to first positions in that case, but you can later adjust that by shifting notes from one string to the other while in tablature mode. Use Control+Arrow Up/Down with the cursor on a tablature note.