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Refer to the guitar arrangements of music by Bach, Carulli and Dowland, and answer the following questions:

1. Which finger is most commonly used to pluck strings?

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2. Which fret-board finger most commonly participates in forming guitar sonorities?

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3. What is the most common combination of two or more plucking fingers?

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4. Which fret-board finger is most likely to stop two or more strings simultaneously?

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5. In the Bach work, which finger most frequently plucks a string by itself (i.e. not in combination with other plucking fingers)?

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   Is this single plucking finger also the most frequently used by Dowland and by Carulli?

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6. Which of the Bach, Carulli, or Dowland works tends to place the player's `left hand' further up the neck of the finger-board? (I.e., Which work has the highest average fret-position?)

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7. Which of the three works has a greater proportion of sonorities using open strings?

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8. What is the most common succession of plucking finger-combinations?

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   What do the four most common successions of plucking finger-combinations tell us about guitar arrangements?

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