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Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen of Egypt. Handel began the music in December 1736; the premiere took place at Covent Garden Theatre in London on 18 May 1737 — but was unsuccessful, with just three further performances.
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 Minuet in G, Op. 14/1, is a short piano composition by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, which became world-famous, overshadowing his more major works such as the Symphony in B minor "Polonia", the Piano Concerto in A minor, and the opera Manru. The minuet was written in 1887, the first of six pieces making up his Humoresques de concert, Op. 14. The ...
André-Joseph Exaudet (1710–1762) was a French violinist and composer, best known for composing the influential 1751 minuet bearing his name.. The January 1744 issue of the Mercure de France announced the publication of six violin sonatas, mentioning that Exaudet was then first violinist of the Académie Royale de Musique de Rouen.
The Minuet was taken from Scènes bohémiennes, a suite of material originally composed for Bizet's 1866 opera La jolie fille de Perth. [1] The Farandole (the name of a Provençal dance) is a condensation of two numbers of the incidental music--№ 22: Final, and № 23: Entr’acte and Chorus. The choruses in these numbers were either omitted ...
This was no primly patterned minuet, where dancers stood side by side, attention directed to precisely mapping elaborate steps. ... The depression-era 1938 “The Great Waltz,” starring opera ...
It was much livelier than the minuet and to some degree resembled the waltz. The close physical contact between the dancers, together with constant spinning causing dizziness, led this dance to be attacked as immoral. It was nonetheless danced widely. [2] Mozart's German dances are, like the minuets, in ternary form, but normally with a coda added.
For the fourth and fifth movements, Handel used the second and third parts of the second version of the overture to his still unfinished opera Imeneo. Both were transposed from G to F. The Allegro is an animated but orthodox fugue; the Minuet starts unusually in the minor key but moves to the major for its eight-bar coda.