A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure
A French dance in triple time, of rustic origins but popular in the courts of 18th-century Europe
A kind of social dance popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, featuring group movements in a moderate triple meter Later, the music of the minuet became absorbed into classical concert-hall music, occupying the third movement slot of the symphony and other genres See minuet and trio
In the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a minuet is a piece of music with three beats in a bar which is played at moderate speed
A minuet is a fairly slow and formal dance which was popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. a slow dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, or a piece of music for this dance (menuet, from menu ; MINUTE). Dignified couple dance derived from a French folk dance, dominant in European court ballrooms in the 17th-18th century. Using small, slow steps to music in 3 4 time, dancers often performed choreographed figures combined with stylized bows and curtsies. The most popular dance of the 18th-century aristocracy, it fell from favour after the French Revolution in 1789. It was of great importance in art music; commonly incorporated into the suite 1650-1775, it was the only dance form retained in the symphony, sonata, string quartet, and other multimovement art-music genres up to 1800
It was a carefree and lively dance until presented by the French court in 1650 There it developed into a slow and stately dance, elegant in its simplicity It consists of a salute to the partner, a high step and a balance, and affords numerous opportunities for an exchange of courtly gestures, bows and curtsies
a old, courtly dance in which every measure has three beats A precursor to the waltz
A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc
a stately court dance in the 17th century a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
A French 17th-century dance, the form of which was eventually incorporated into the sonata and symphony as the third movement
A stately dance first popular in France at the court of Louis XIV, subsequently in vogue throughout Europe The minuet became favored by most composers of the Classical period Suites by Handel and Bach have minuet movements and so do the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart Beethoven had a minuet in his First Symphony, but abandoned it for teh scherzo in all his later symphonies except the Fourth and Eight The minuet is in three-part form, the middle bine a trio, and the first and third parts being identical The most celebrated minuets in musical literature are by Boccherini, Beethoven (Minuet in G), Mozart (from Don Giovanni), Verdi (from Rigoletto), and Paderewski (Menuet à l´antique)