Minuet

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A minuet (also spelled menuet ) is a French social dance for two people, usually in < sup style = "font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline"> 3
₄ time. The word is adapted from the Italian minuetto and menuet French, perhaps from the French menu which means lean, small, referring to the very steps small, or from a popular early-century group dance called branle ÃÆ' received or amener .

The term also describes the style of music that accompanies the dance, which is then developed more fully, often with a longer form of music called minuet and trio , and is widely used as a movement in the early classical symphony.

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Dance

The name can refer to short steps, pas menu , taken in a dance, or derived from branle ÃÆ' hit or amener , popular group dances in early 17th century France (Little 2001). Minuets are traditionally said to come from bransle de Poitou , although there is no evidence that makes a clear connection between these two dances. The earliest treatise to mention the possibility of a name connection for the pas menu expression was Gottfried Taubert's , published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source did not specify the steps. as very small or petite (Russell 2006, 140-41). In the period when it was the most fashionable it was controlled, ceremonial and graceful.

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Music

Rhythm and form

The name of this dance is also given on the composition of music written in the same time and rhythm, although when not accompanying the actual dance speed is faster. The refined stylish minibar, regardless of the context of social dance, was introduced - for the opera initially - by Jean-Baptiste Lully, which included no fewer than 92 of them in his theater (Little 2001) and by the end of the 17th century Minuet was adopted into a suite , such as several suites Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric HÃÆ'¤ndel. Among Italian composers, minuets are often much faster and more alive and sometimes written in 3
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₈ time. Because minuet tempo is not standard, the tempo direction tempo in minuetto is ambiguous unless it is qualified by another direction, as is sometimes the case (Russell 2001).

Initially, before being adopted in a context other than social dance, minuets are usually in binary form, with two recurring sections of usually eight bars each. But the second part is finally expanded, producing a kind of ternary form. The second (or middle) minuet provides contrasting shapes with different keys and orchestration methods. On a larger scale, the two minuets can be combined further, so the first minuet is followed by the second and then with the first repetition. The entire form can be repeated again during the dance.

Minuet and trio

Around Lully's time it became common practice to print this middle section for a trio (like two oboes and bassoon, as is common in Lully). As a result, this middle section is called trioet trio , even when there is no such orchestration trace. The whole structure is called binary round or minuet form (Rosen 1988, 29):

After this development by Lully, the composer sometimes incorporates a modified repetition of the first part (A) or part that is opposite to part A and what therefore gives a third part or C, resulting in the form of AA? -BA or ABCA, respectively; the last example is the third movement of Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525, known as Eine kleine Nachtmusik .

The livelier form of the minuet simultaneously evolves into scherzo (which is generally also combined with the trio). This term appears around from Beethoven and beyond, but the form itself can be traced back to Haydn.

The minuet and trio eventually became the third standard movement in the classical symphony of four movements, Johann Stamitz being the first to use it so with regularity.

Examples of the actual shape of the minuet can be found at Don Giovanni .

A notable example of the more recent instrumental work in the minuet form is Minuet Ignacy Jan Paderewski in G.

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See also

• Scherzo, a musical form derived from minuet

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References

• Blatter, Alfred. 2007. Reviewing Music Theory: A Guide to Exercise . New York: Routledge. ISBNÃ, 0-415-97440-2.
• Little, Meredith Ellis. 2001. "Minuet". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Publisher Macmillan.
• Rosen, Charles. 1988. Sonata Forms , revised edition. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBNÃ, 0-393-30219-9.
• Russell, Tilden A. 2001. "Tempo in minuetto". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Publisher Macmillan.
• Russell, Tilden. 2006. "The Minuet According Taubert". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research 24, no. 2 (Winter): 138-62.
• Sutton, Julia. 1985. "The Minuet: A Elegant Phoenix". Dance Chronicle , no. 8: 119-52.
• This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain: Ã, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Minuet". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica . 18 (issue 11). Cambridge University Press. p.Ã, 564.

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Further reading

• Caplin, William Earl. 1998. Classical Form: Formal Function Theory for Instrumental Music Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-510480-3 (fabric); ISBN: 0-19-514399-X (pbk). (pp.Ã, 220ff).
• Elson, Louis Charles. 1908. Music Theory as Applied to Voice and Instrument Teaching and Instrument , 21st ed. Boston: New Music Conservatory in New England. (pp.Ã, 157ff).

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External links

• Example Choreography Minuet: "Menu deux pour un homme et une femme", Raoul Auger Feuillet: Recueil de Dances (1704)

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