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After the typical tonic-to-dominant opening, he prepares two successive minor-mode keys (E minor and C minor) before the introduction comes to a halt with a fermata on a G major chord (the dominant of C minor). The winds then play a single soft chord (dominant seventh) of E ♭ which resolves immediately to the opening theme of the Vivace assai ...
After the double Minuet, Petzold's Suite continues with a Gigue and a Passepied with Trio. According to the manuscript, the Minuets are to be performed da capo, in this order: [20] Menuet alternativement (=first Minuet, G major) [21] Menuet 2 (=second Minuet, G minor) [6] On reprend le premier Menuet (repeat the first Minuet) [6]
The trio section of the minuet offers a brief respite with a first strain in E ♭ major; but the second strain returns to the minor, modulating down through several minor keys. The trio ends with a plagal cadence to G major, for a Baroque-like Picardy third conclusion; but then the minuet recapitulates in G minor. The move from G major back to ...
For example, in the Minuet in Haydn's String Quartet op. 76 no. 6, the Minuet is in standard binary form (section A and B) while the trio is in free form and not in two repeated sections. Haydn labeled the B section "Alternative", a label used in some Baroque pieces (though most such pieces were in proper compound ternary form).
The third movement is a minuet and trio, in ternary form in the tonic key . The tempo, allegro molto (very quickly), is of note since it marks the historical shift away from the old minuet (which was played at a slower, danceable, tempo) toward the scherzo; by his last quartets Haydn had started marking his minuets presto.
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.
This main theme is repeated twice more with slight modulations. The brief and slower middle section, in E-flat major, has a syncopated rhythm and is subdued in its grace and mystery, providing a calmer atmosphere. Soon, the main theme returns and after being repeated twice again, the mazurka ends boldly with a B-flat major chord in octaves.
The retransition prolongates over the dominant chord on G, but suddenly takes up the first theme in the flattened mediant E ♭ major. A particularly common exception is for the dominant to be substituted with the dominant of the relative minor key: one example is the first movement of Haydn's String Quartet in E major, Op. 54 No. 3.