MAURO GIULIANI

18 progressive lessons, op. 51

for guitar solo

Edited by Brian Jeffery

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Preface for Giuliani’s XVIII Leçons Progressives

(Eighteen progressive lessons), op. 51
This collection of simple pieces was first published in Vienna probably early in
1814, that is to say just a few months after Giuliani’s much more advanced op.
48 of 1813. So one can say that like Sor, Giuliani moved in his composition
from the hard to the easier. Still, some of the pieces here are quite pleasant, for
example no. 5 or no. 7.
Op. 51 almost never rises above the first and second positions, except only
for no. 18 which goes much higher. It has almost no fingering or position
indications, perhaps because most of the pieces are so easy. No. 18, again
exceptionally, begins in the 7th position.
Again it has interesting dynamics and careful placing of sf.
No. 2: the structure of this piece in the original edition seems to show that
two bars are missing. In order to remedy this, I have inserted two bars, which
are the bars numbered 13-14 in this edition. If anyone wishes to remove them,
they can do so.
No. 9 bar 10: the first upper note was C in the original and is here changed
to A.
No. 11, bar 10: in the first group of notes, the second and fourth notes
should both be E not D (I am grateful to Neil Smith for pointing this out).
 No. 13: here also in the original edition the bars do not add up properly.
Everything is fine up to bar 16, and also from bar 37 to the end, but in between
the number of bars does not seem to be correct. However, no obvious error is
present and no obvious solution presents itself.
No. 13 last bar: the spacing of the chord implies that Giuliani intended the
low F in the final bar to be stopped with the left hand thumb.
No. 18 ends with a flourish, to bring the collection to an end.

At the end of this file, after the music, will be found a note about Giuliani’s
fingering and his use of dynamics.
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XVIII LEÇONS PROGRESSIVES

18 PROGRESSIVE LESSONS
Opus 51

LESSON 1
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LESSON 2
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 A note on Giuliani’s fingering and dynamics
Fingering
In this edition, no changes whatsoever have been introduced to the fingering,
and none has been added, so that if you observe exactly the fingering that is
here, you can get a good idea of what Giuliani intended, or if you wish to
change it, you can easily do so. Much of the interest lies in the detail, and you
can study that detail here if you wish because no changes have been made here.
Of the works in this edition, Giuliani gave detailed left hand fingering in the
modern sense only in op. 1 parts 1, 2, and 3. In op. 48 and op. 100 he didn't give
left hand finger numbers, but he did give position numbers, which are often
subtle and very precise indications of how a passage is to be fingered. In op. 1
part 4, and also in opp. 51 and 98, he gave no fingering at all. (Op. 139 gives
detailed fingering, but it is a late edition and I suspect that the fingering may not
be Giuliani’s but rather the publisher’s.)
It could be argued that I could have added new and modern fingering to this
edition, as some modem editions do. However, there are a number of problems
with adding new fingering. True, it makes things easier for players of modest
accomplishments in the short term. But in the longer term it doesn’t help you to
become fluent, indeed it may even stand in your way. I think it is much better to
have the actual music without having to look at it through the misty glass of
someone else’s view of how it ought to be fingered.
Also, Giuliani composed the particular works in this book with his own
brilliant technique in mind, to which fingering was central. After all, he was the
greatest guitar virtuoso of the Vienna of Beethoven and Schubert, and he wrote
most of the pieces in this book not merely with his own fingering in mind but
specifically to give exercise in his own system of fingering. It therefore seems
perverse to add new fingering, or even to replace Giuliani’s own fingering with
modern fingering.
The Roman figures I, II, etc. indicate positions, that is to say they show at
which position on the neck the left hand is to be placed; they do not necessarily
mean that a bane is to be used, as they might in a modern piece. They have been
left as in the original.
The position figures are not always placed with precision in the original
editions as we would probably expect them to be today. For example, if a
position figure refers to a group of four notes, then in the original editions
usually the figure will appear above the first of the four notes but often it will be
found above say the second or third note, where any player can immediately see
that it applies to the whole group. In such cases in this edition I have followed
modern practice and placed them usually above the first note. (Anyone
interested can compare the Tecla facsimile edition with this present edition; see
for example op. 100.)
An asterisk on a bass note means that the note is to be stopped with the left
hand thumb, a technique which today is often used by popular guitarists but
practically never by classical ones. Here it has been left as in the original.
Anyone who wishes to change it can easily do so, for example in op. 1 Part One
nos. 113 and 114, or in Part Two no. 3 bar 5 or no. 4 bar 1. Sometimes
Giuliani’s use of this can be deduced even though it is not indicated, as in op. 1
Part Four no. 9.

Dynamics
In Giuliani’s music, dynamics are important because he liked to use dynamic
contrast a lot. Often, his dynamic indications as well as his fingering are very
precise and interesting, even in the simplest pieces. For example, in op. 100 no.
13 the diminuendo signs on the last two notes of each bar at the beginning help
to show precisely how Giuliani intended them to be played; yet they are omitted
in at least one modern edition. At the same time, one should be aware that such
signs at that time might not have had precisely the same meaning as they might
today, so play with care!
A dot on a note immediately following a group of notes joined by a slur
probably does not mean that the note is to be played staccato, only that it is not
to be slurred.
Obvious errors are corrected without note. Some extra accidentals have been
added editorially (but only to make the notation clearer, never to alter the
music). The duration of the final chords of some pieces has been regularized.

Brian Jeffery