I've just figured out how to write in multi-voice ABC Plus format, so here is my variation again, this time with both parts combined on a single staff (played in different octaves, of course). The conversion site I use can't cope with the time signature being different in the two voices, so the guitar is notated as being in 3/4 for the measures in which the mandolin is also 3/4, but the grouping of the notes should make the intended 6/8 clear.
How is everybody else doing? Any comments from guitar (or indeed mandolin) players on whether this works at all?
Martin
PS: As I've now had my classically trained (as a woodwind player) girlfriend look at the score, I'd suggest that any guitarist who has a similarly violent reaction as she had to some of the dissonant intervals between melody and accompaniment should just arpeggio "A,EA EAe" all the way through, as indicated in the last two measures of the printed guitar part before the repeat sign and ditch the interspersed countermelody notes.
X:1
T:Dies Irae (Mandolin)
C:Martin Jonas
M:6/8
L:1/8
N:Play open strings where possible.
R:
Q:1/4=120
K:Amin
V:mandolin
"mandolin"|:cde dcB|[M:3/4]c2 Ac Be|ge Ac Bc|[M:6/8]c2 c d2 B|
V:guitar
"guitar"|:A,Ec EBe|A,Ec EAe|A,EB EGe|A,EA EAe|
V:mandolin
cde dcB|[M:3/4]A2 G2 B2|c2 B2 A2|A6|
V:guitar
A,EB Ece|A,EB EAe|A,EA EAe|A,EG EAe|
V:mandolin
[M:6/8]cde dcB|[M:3/4]c2 Ac Be|ge Ac Bc|[M:6/8]c2 c d2 B|
V:guitar
A,Ec Ece|A,Ec Ede|A,Ec EBe|A,EA EGe|
V:mandolin
cde dcB|[M:3/4]A2 G2 B2|c2 B2 A2|E4 G2|
V:guitar
A,EA EAe|A,EA EGe|A,EB EBe|A,Ec Ece|
V:mandolin
[M:6/8]Ace ecA|[M:3/4]A2 GB cB|1c6:|2A6|]
V:guitar
A,EB EBe|A,EA EAe|1A,EA EAe:|2[A,6E6A6e6]|]
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