{"id":2677,"date":"2015-10-27T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2016-08-09T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:36:28","slug":"giuliani-dances-of-1810-by-brian-jeffery-strings-by-mail-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/giuliani-dances-of-1810-by-brian-jeffery-strings-by-mail-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani Dances of 1810 by Brian Jeffery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dances<\/a>

Dances of 1810 – Mauro Giuliani<\/p><\/div>\n

Written by guest blogger, Brian Jeffery<\/strong><\/p>\n

That book called Dances of 1810<\/i><\/a> by Giuliani that I published some years ago (TECLA 395<\/a>): maybe I ought really to have given that book the following title: \u201cThe really easy pieces that Giuliani wrote for absolute beginners when he was a young man\u201d, because that\u2019s what they are.<\/p>\n

It linked in to my own experience. I began on the lute, not on the guitar. Right from the start I remember that I was completely at home with the upper frets, up there around the seventh, ninth, twelfth frets, no problem.<\/p>\n

And it looks as though Giuliani was as well, on the guitar. Excitingly, when I went looking for easy pieces by Giuliani, I could see that the easy pieces for the guitar that he published when he was a young virtuoso just arrived in Vienna, were many of them up there at the ninth, tenth, twelfth fret, no problem. He just added lots of open bass strings to those high-up melodies.<\/p>\n

So I thought I would publish a book of Giuliani\u2019s easy pieces not the way that he wrote them when later on perhaps he was just doing what the Viennese publishers told him to do, but the way that he obviously chose for himself out of the fire of his virtuoso beginning. And I did: it\u2019s the book called Dances of 1810<\/i>.<\/p>\n

What was special about that music was that Vienna was already crazy about dancing. It is recorded that the young people on the Vienna dance-floors kept shouting: \u201cSchneller! schneller!\u201d \u2013 faster, faster! So if you want to try esay guitar music the way that Giuliani first thought of it, you can play these pieces \u2013 just throw your inhibitions away first.<\/p>\n

It is actually easier to play up there at the high frets, in one way, because the frets are not so far apart as they are down there at the lower frets, you don\u2019t have to stretch the hand so much.<\/p>\n

You can hear Gohar Vardanyan play the Tarantella from Dances of 1810<\/a> on YouTube.<\/a> Remember: the Tarantella is the dance that you just can\u2019t stop dancing . . . And you can also hear her play some great (and suprising) waltzes also from Dances of 1810.<\/a><\/p>\n

`Brian Jeffery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by guest blogger, Brian Jeffery That book called Dances of 1810 by Giuliani that I published some years ago (TECLA 395): maybe I ought really to have given that book the following title: \u201cThe really easy pieces that Giuliani wrote for absolute beginners when he was a young man\u201d, because that\u2019s what they are. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}