La Terpsichore du Nord: Nr. 9 Allegretto
Mauro Giuliani
In the Renaissance, Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) composed and collected over 300 dances in the collection Terpsichore. He took the name of Terpsichore, the Muse of the Dance from the Greek mythology.
Probably Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829) thought about repeating this feat when he composed his Op. 147 La Terpsichore du Nord. Finally he produced a collection of 16 pieces in dancing mood. Most pieces are in two-four time with a common structure of Theme, Trio and Da Capo. In some pieces you can recognize folk song elements.
I found a version of La Terpsichore du Nord in the Boije Collection and I thought that an integral setting in modern notation would be nice for the classical guitar world.
This is a nice and catchy tune that provides a good exercise in scales over the complete fingerboard. I maintained the slurs from the original in the score, although soem of them are not easy to play in the progress (e.g. the E-D slurs on the second string). I would not mind skipping some of these!