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Minuet in G major

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Portrait of Bach, in whose household notebook the minuet was copied; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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A keyboard minuet from the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and now usually credited to Christian Petzold.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Theme]
e|----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|2---3---3-------|
B|3-------0-------|1---3-----------|----1---3-------|----------------|
G|----0-------2---|------------0---|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Theme repeated]
e|----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|2---3---3-------|
B|3-------0-------|1---3-----------|----1---3-------|----------------|
G|----0-------2---|------------0---|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Second phrase]
e|0-----------0---|2---3---3-------|0-----------0---|2---3---3-------|
B|----1---3-------|----------------|----1---3-------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Cadence]
e|2---3---3-------|0-----------0---|2---3---3-------|3---------------|
B|----------------|----1---3-------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|