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  2. Serenade No. 4 (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    The trio of the second minuet features an independent solo bassoon part. Like most of his orchestral serenades, a symphony was arranged from a subset of the serenade's movements. The "Serenade Symphony" for this work consists of movements one, six, seven and eight. [2] Movement 4 is used in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). [3] [failed verification]

  3. Minuet - Wikipedia

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    Minuet in the Classical period. A minuet (/ ˌ m ɪ nj u ˈ ɛ t /; also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually written in 3 4 time but always played as if in 6 8 (compound duple metre) to reflect the step pattern of the dance. The English word was adapted from the Italian minuetto and the French menuet.

  4. Minuets in G major and G minor - Wikipedia

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    Menuet 2 (=second Minuet, G minor) [6] On reprend le premier Menuet (repeat the first Minuet) [6] Both the G major and the G minor Menuets, in 3 4 time, consist of 32 measures, each with a repeat sign at the end of the 16th measure (for a repeat of the first half of the piece), and another at the end of the Menuet (for a repeat of the second ...

  5. Suite (music) - Wikipedia

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    Minuet (Menuetto): A 3 4 dance in a stately and graceful manner. It is often short and simple often with only clear theme and little variation. In many suites there are two minuets, in such cases the first minuet is played with repeats, then follows the second minuet with repeats, then the first minuet is repeated (da capo) usually without ...

  6. Maurice Besly - Wikipedia

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    Edward Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945) was an English composer, conductor, schoolteacher, organist, and arranger best known for his popular ballads, The Second Minuet and Time, You Old Gipsy Man. More ambitious vocal pieces were the Four Poems Op 24, Charivaria (5 songs), and his setting of Christina Rossetti 's The shepherds had an angel for ...

  7. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    One nonillionth of a second. rontosecond: 10 −27 s: One octillionth of a second. yoctosecond: 10 −24 s: One septillionth of a second. jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum. zeptosecond: 10 −21 s: One sextillionth of a second.

  8. String Quintet No. 4 (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    The first movement is in sonata form with both the first and second themes beginning in G minor. [1] The movement does not resolve to the major key in the recapitulation, and it has a minor-key ending. The minuet, placed second, is a minuet in name only, as the turbulent G minor theme and heavy third-beat chords make this movement unlike a dance.

  9. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    The word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part", and "second" from pars minuta secunda or "second small part". Angular measure also uses sexagesimal units; there, it is the degree that is subdivided into minutes and seconds, while in time, it is the hour.