Featured Facsimile: Mauro Giuliani’s \u3ci\u3eZwölf neue Wald-Ländler\u3c/i\u3e (Twelve New Forest-Ländler), Op. 23

Giuliani\u27s Zwölf neue Wald-Ländler (Twelve New Forest-Ländler), Op. 23, in score. It was first published by the prestigious firm of Artaria & Co., with plate no. 2710, advertised for sale on 27 January 1810. Characteristic of these waltzes were the chordal (triadic) melodies, inspired stylistically by yodelers and yodeling. The intervallic tuning of the guitar favors the performance of such melodies as these, which evoke a style of folk music that runs deep in Austrian musical consciousness. Usually performed in sets of twelve, all in the same key, a Ländler-reihe (set, or row) usually began slowly, accelerated gradually toward the middle of the set, and slowed down again towards the end