Explanatory notes
This is the famous Minuet in G major attributed to J. S. Bach (1685-1750) until the 1970s. Since then it is usually attributed to Christian Petzold (1677–1733), a German composer and organist. The Minuet in G major is a keyboard piece included in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. It contains a compilation of pieces by various composers of the late 17th and early 18th century along with J. S. Bach's own compositions. Many of the pieces in the notebook were presented with no authorship identification.
This guitar arrangement doesn't show much new since it presents the most logical solutions that are to encounter in the transcription process. Differences might be found in some octave replacements and, I'd guess, in the first beat - in which I filled in the chord of G major with the 3rd and octave (the easiest counterpart would be to just play the melodic and bass tones, but it sounds better like this and it goes closer with the "original" score).
One of my intentions, when arranging and editing music for classical guitar, is to expose left-hand fingering ideas. I hope they serve those who have been struggling with fingerings. The 1st beat of bar 23 presents a solution that I often use to avoid position/posture shifts allowing thus a more fluent playing: the 1st finger stops the F-sharp tone with its proximal phalanx. This enables the open D to be played and, at the same time, the finger is prepared to fall on the remaining strings on the 2nd fret in ways to stop the tones A and F-sharp (bass) on the 2nd beat. Since I don't now if there's a conventional symbol for this trick I use the interrupted vertical bar. But this trick, as well as the remaining left-hand fingering here presented, is just a suggestion. Use it as you please.
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