Theme from the opera Queen Of Spades - Op 68
by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tabbed by Ilya - ilya__k@front.ru - August 2004

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Andante
2/4                             ___________ ______________
pp                              |1.       ||2.
        ---==                   |         ||           ==
1  |    |.  |   |   |    |   |  | |       || |          |
E|------------|--------|--------|---------||--------------|
B|-5----6---5-|-4---5--|-1--/3--|-5-------||-5------------|
G|-5---/7--\5-|-4---5--|-2--/4--|-5---}--*||-5--'/--;/--2-|
D|------------|--------|-----0--|--------*||--------------|
A|-0----}-----|---_----|-0------|-0-------||-0---}--------|
E|------------|--------|--------|---------||--------------|
   |                     |   |    |          |
   4    2   4   2   4    1   1    4                     1
   3    3   3   1   3    2   2    3

    ---== ---==      --    ==   ---== ---==             ==
6   |.  | |.  |   |   |     |   |.  | |.  |   |          |
E|--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|
B|--0-----------|-0---1-------|-0-----------|-0----------0-|
G|*-----2-1---2-|-1---2--;/-2-|-----2-1---2-|-1--'/--;/----|
D|*-3-----------|-2-----------|-3-----------|-2------------|
A|--5-----------|-----0--'/---|-5-----------|--------------|
E|--------1-----|-0-----------|-------1-----|-0---}--------|
    |     |       |   |         |     |       |
    2   1 2   3   1   --
    4     1       2  1/3

                                             ______________
                                             |1.           ||
10   ---== ---==   ---== ---==   ---== ---== |         ==  ||
 III |.  | |.  |   |.  | |.  |   |.  | |.  | | |        |  ||
E|-:-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------||
B|-:-3---3-6---6-|-5---5-1---1-|/3---3-0---0-|-------------||
G|-:-4---4/7---7-|\5---5-2---2-|/4---4-1---1-|-2-'/--;/-2-*||
D|-:-3---3-------|-------------|-------------|------------*||
A|-:-------------|-0-----}-----|-------------|-0-----------||
E|-:-4-----}-----|-------------|-0-----}-----|-------------||
     |             |             |             |
     3     2       4     1       1
     2     3       3     2       2

   ______________
   |2.
   | --
14 | |
E|--------------||
B|--------------||
G|---2--'/--}---||
D|--------------||
A|---0----------||
E|--------------||
    |
    --
    ppp

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pp, ppp - expression (this piece is played very quietly  as you see)

|    -   quarter note         }  -  quarter rest

--
|    -   eighth note          '/ -  eighth rest

==
|    -   sixteenth note       ;/  - sixteenth rest

|.   -   dotted note          _   - half rest

III                           ||
  :                          *||
  :  -   barre               *||  - reprise (repeat)
  :                           ||

The open B at the end of the 9th measure can also be played on the G-string.
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This piece I took from the "Agafoshin Guitar School".