SERIE AMERICANA
by Hector Ayala

to Irma Constanzo

4 / GUARANIA / PARAGUAY

The guarania is a paraguayan style of song created by a musician called José 
Asunción Flores in 1925. He wanted to find a music to express the character 
of the paraguayan man beyond that expressed by the polca and its 
derivatives, so he developed a combination of slow rythms and melodies, 
some that were melancholic and others of an heroic character. Since its 
appearance the Guarania has turned into a phenomenon of major 
significance in paraguayan music of the 20th century. This genre has an 
extraordinary acceptance. Its author, after succesive investigations, planned
a symphonic way of guarania, creating orchestral poems, songs with symphonic
accompaniment and finaly symphonic poems of universal transcendence. Soon
numerous composers adopted the Guarania as a form of expression, increasing
its repertoire so that it enjoys great popularity in urban centres, but not
in the countryside.

The accompanying MIDI on the Classical Guitar Tablature page
is only to be used as a guide, because of the polyrhythmic writing and sense
of this music.

Tablature by Hernán G. Renom - dasein79@hotmail.com -  13 September 2002

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last chord of measure 47, and first chord of measure 48 raised a semitone
from F, B, D#, G# to F#, C, E, A - info from Rob Boellaard - 16 July 2004
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuning: 6th in D
Key: D Major
Time Signature: 6/8 (3/4)
r = rest - when placed after h (1/2 note), q (1/4 note), e (1/8 note), s...
S=Segno

Larghetto (M.  q. = 63)

1
  S
||--12----------------------------|-------10---12---10---5----2----|
||-----------------10-------------|--------------------------------|
||-----------------11-------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------0---------0---------|--------------------------------|
||--0-----------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

3
|--0-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------0--------------|-------3----5----3--------------|
|-----------------2--------------|----------------------2---------|
|------------4---------4---------|---------------------------4----|
|-------0------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

5
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--2-------------------0---------|
|---------------------------2----|--2-----------------------------|
|--2-------------------4---------|--4-----------------------------|
|-------5----p4----5-------------|--5-----------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|--------------------------------|

7
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--3-------------------2-p0------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------0---------2----|--0-----------------------------|
|------------2-------------------|--------------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|-------0----2----4----0---------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

9
|--14----------------------------|-------12---14---12-------------|
|--12-------------12-------------|----------------------12---8----|
|--12-------------12-------------|--------------------------------|
|--11--------11--------11--------|--------------------------------|
|-------0------------------------|--0-----------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

11
|-----------------0--------------|-------0---p2----0--------------|
|--7-----------------------------|----------------------0---------|
|------------0---------0---------|---------------------------0----|
|------------11--------11--------|--------------------------------|
|-------0------------------------|--0-----------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

13
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------------------------0----|--3-------------------2---------|
|----------------------0---------|----------------------0---------|
|--4----p2---1----p2-------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-------------------|
|--------------------------------|-------2---------1--------------|

15
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--2-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--2-------------------4-p2------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------4---------5----|--4-----------------------------|
|------------0-------------------|--------------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|-------0----2----4----2----0----|

17
|--------------------------------|-----------------2--------------|
|--1--------------3--------------|--5--------------3--------------|
|--2--------------5--------------|--5--------------5--------------|
|--4--------------4--------------|--4-----------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------0---------0---------|------------0---------0---------|

19
|--2----0---------3----2---------|--2----0---------0--------------|
|--0----0---------0----0---------|--3----3---------3----3---------|
|--0----0---------0----0---------|--4----4---------4----4---------|
|--------------------------------|--5-------------------5---------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-------------------|
|--5---------5---------5---------|--------------------------------|

21
|---------------------------------|-----------------0--------------|
|---------------------------------|--3--------------3--------------|
|--3---------------5--------------|--3--------------1--------------|
|--0---------------0--------------|--------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------1--------------|
|--5---------------4--------------|--3-----------------------------|

23
rall.           |------4-------|   |------4-------| |------4-------|
|--5----------------------5-------|----------5---------------5-------|
|--2------------------0-------0---|------2-------2-------2-----------|
|--0------------------------------|------------------------------2---|
|---------------------------------|--0-------------------------------|
|--0--------------2---------------|------------------4---------------|
|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
                                                                \:/
25
a tempo
|-<12----------------------------|-------10---12---10---5----2----|
|->10-------------10-------------|--------------------------------|
|-<11-------------11-------------|--------------------------------|
|->0-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-<0---------0---------0---------|--------------------------------|
|->0-----------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

27
|--0-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------0--------------|-------3----5----3--------------|
|-----------------2--------------|----------------------2---------|
|------------4---------4---------|---------------------------4----|
|-------0------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

29
|--------------------------------|---------------------------2----|
|--------------------------------|-------0---------2--------------|
|--------------------------------|--0--------------0--------------|
|--2----5----er---4----7----er---|--0-----------------------------|
|--2--------------4--------------|-----------------0--------------|
|--2---------er---4---------er---|--5-----------------------------|

31
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--3-----------------------------|-(3)---qr--------q.r------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--0-----------------------------||
|----------------------0---------|------------4---------2---------||
|--0---------4-------------------|--------------------------------||

33
  |------4-------| |------4-------|  |------4-------| |------4-------|
||--3-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
||------------------2---------------|------------------5---------------|
||----------2---------------2-------|----------6---------------6-------|
||------2-------2-------2-----------|------5-------5-------5-----------|
||--0---------------------------0---|-(0)--------------------------0---|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

35
|------4-------| |------4-------|   |------4------| |------4-------|
|--7---------------9----------------|--10-------------9----------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------6---------------9--------|----------9---------------9-------|
|------5---------------7------------|------7---------------7-----------|
|-(0)----------0----------------0---|-(0)---------0----------------0---|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
                                                                  \:/
37
|------4-------| |------4-------|   |------4------| |------4-------|
|--2-------------------------------|--3-------------------------------|
|------------------3---------------|------------------3---------------|
|----------2---------------2-------|----------2---------------2-------|
|------0-------0-------0-----------|------0-------0-------0-----------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--0---------------------------0---|-(0)--------------------------0---|

39
  |------4------| |------4-------|    |------4-----| |------4-------|
|--5---------------7----------------|--9--------------7----------------|
|----------7---------------7--------|----------7---------------7-------|
|------7---------------7------------|------7---------------7-----------|
|--------------0----------------0---|-(0)---------0----------------0---|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-(0)-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
                                                                  \:/
41
|--2--------------0--------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------0--------------|--3--------------2--------------|
|------------0-------------------|-----------------2--------------|
|----------------------2---------|-----------------5--------------|
|--2-----------------------------|--1---------0---------0---------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

43
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--5--------------3--------------|-------2----5----3--------------|
|--2--------------2--------------|----------------------3----4----|
|--4--------------4--------------|--------------------------------|
|------------0---------0---------|--------------------------------|
|--0-----------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

45
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--7--------------5--------------|
|--7--------------6--------------|-----------------6--------------|
|------------5-------------------|------------5-------------------|
|--0-------------------0---------|-(0)------------------0---------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

47
|--3----2---------7----5---------|--5----3---------3----2---------|
|--1----1----er---5----5----er---|--5----1----er---1----1----er---|
|--2----2---------5----5---------|--5----2---------2----2---------|
|--2----0----er---5----4----er---|--4----2----er---2----0----er---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

49
|-------0----0---------0----0----|-------0----0---------0----0----|
|--er---0----0----er---0----0----|--er---3----3----er---0----0----|
|-------0----0---------0----0----|-------3----3---------0----0----|
|--4--------------2--------------|--0-----------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-----------------4--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

51
|-------2----2---------2----2----|-------9---h12---10-------------|
|--er---3----3----er---3----3----|----------------------11---12---|
|-------2----2---------2----2----|--------------------------------|
|--2-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------5--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--0-----------------------------|

53                                    >                   >
|--10--------er---er-------------|----------------------2---------||
|--0-------------------10---p8---|--7---------er---er---2---------||
|--0--------------7--------------|----------------------2---------||
|-------0----h9--------qr--------|----------------------5---------||
|--------------------------------|-------0----2----4--------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||

55
   |--1st-------------------------------------------------------| al S
||--------------------------------|----------------------2----5----||
||--3----qr--------q.r------------|-----------------3--------------||
||--2-----------------------------|-------2----4-------------------||
||--4------------------------0----|--4-----------------------------||
||--5----er--------0----2---------|--------------------------------||
||------------4-------------------|--------------------------------||

57
   |--2nd-------------------------- /.\ ------------------------|
||--------------------------------|-<10---------------------------||
||--3-----------------------------|->7----------------------------||
||--2-----------------------------|-<7----------------------------||
||--4-----------------------------|->0----------------------------||
||--5-----------------------------|-<0----------------------------||
||--------------------------------|->0----------------------------||
                                    \:/