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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.
The original minuet also lacks a trio, the middle section of the movement commonly included in the 18th century, which may be one of the reasons that Mozart decided to rewrite the movement. Theme of trio. The published third movement is a minuet and trio with the tempo marking of moderato. The minuet is in B-flat major and the trio is in E-flat ...
The minuet of the second quartet in C major is built of tied suspensions in the first violin, viola and cello, so that the listener loses all sense of downbeat. The fourth quartet has the off-beat alla zingarese movement. The minuet of the fifth quartet has a first section of 18 measures, divided asymmetrically.
For example, in Mozart's six quartets dedicated to Haydn, three have a minuet followed by a slow movement and three have the slow movement before the minuet. Substantial modifications to the typical structure were already present by the time of Beethoven's late quartets, and despite some notable examples to the contrary, composers writing in ...
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No. 3, the first piece after the two seven-movement Partitas, is a Minuet in F major by an unknown composer (likely not Bach), adopted as No. 113 in the second annex (German: Anhang, Anh.), that is the annex of doubtful compositions, in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV). Petzold's Minuets in G major and G minor, BWV Anh. 114 and 115, are the ...
In music, a trio (from the Italian) is any of the following: a composition for three performers or three musical parts; in larger works, the middle section of a ternary form (so named because of the 17th-century practice of scoring the contrasting second or middle dance appearing between two statements of a principal dance for three instruments)
In contrast to the standard quartet form, which places the minuet as the 3rd movement, this quartet has the minuet as its 2nd movement (another example of this ordering is the String Quartet No. 17). It is a long minuet, written in the tonic key of G major, with its chromatic fourths set apart by note-to-note dynamics changes.