These dances were the first easy pieces which Giuliani published when he came to Vienna as a young man. He wrote them to be easy in the sense that much of the time you only have to play a single melodic line and the occasional open bass string. Most of the time they are in or near the first position, but sometimes the melodic lines sing out high up on the strings, where the frets are closer together so that you don't have to stretch the hands as much as you would if they were in the first position (and it's fun).