Songs with a separate accompaniment are rare in the English
guitar/wire-strung guittar repertoire. The simplest presentation was the
melody - and sometimes other twiddly bits, interludes, 'symphonies' -
transposed to C major. Not at all strummed chords as in much of the
simple guitar/cittern tradition.
The songs are given with all the verses. Presumably singers sometimes
sang along - the voice simply doubling the melody in the same or another
octave. Most are in the key of C and often include a high C. That's
high. Maybe the pitch was lower in those days. Some (but only some)
guittars had capo devices to change key - which might be OK if the
fretting and intonation was up to it.
Here is a shot at - in English guitar terms quite a sophisticated
'adaptation' for guittar by Straube - a song. Intonation is quite a
struggle in first position
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5WhVS2XUI
Stuart
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