This is one of the many lute arrangements of this tune whose popularity lasted a whopping two hundred years. It is part of the Schele manuscript, where it is attributed to the Excelletenssimo Musico Jano Dulando and dated June 1614. There are perhaps reasons to contest this attribution. Some people see it the work of Daniel Bacheler, based on ressemblance with the copy in the Cherbury lute book. Whatever the case may be, this is a special piece, 240 bars long, quite carefullly transcribed for a 9-course lute.

I am giving here a transcription of the tablature, an adaptation for guitar in notation  - transcribed a full step up to G minor to expand the bass range - and finally, a realisation in grand staff notation in the original key of F minor. There are multiple problems with converting lute music to notation: adapting for the modern guitar involves some changes in the fingerings (unless you tune the G string to F sharp), key and tessiture. I find the guitar has a wider range in the treble and a lesser range in the bass. So it may make sense to transpose one step up instead of the usual 3 half-steps down. My point is that the modern guitar and the Renaissance lute are different instruments. Grand staff - or keyboard - transcriptions have similar issues since voicing is irregular at best, and while a keyboard player uses two hands to generate sound, the lute player only has one, so shifts from the treble staff to the bass staff are much less meaningful.

DjangoTab offers a number of tools that make it a breeze to shift key, notation style, as well as tuning. If you are unhappy with my choices above, you can simply change the notation transposition value from 1 to -3 to revert back to familiar territory or play with shifting notes from one staff to the other in keyboard style notation.

My thanks to Bernd Haegemann who provided me with the copy of the facsimile I used for the transcription. I have included the facsimile images in the PDF in case you need to double-check the transcription.