A focal point of all baroque dances is the intricate serpentine patterns that the dancers trace as they move across the floor. These show the symmetry, order and harmony found everywhere in 18th century art forms. You can see some of these beautiful curving patterns in the plates from The Art of Dancing, first published in I once heard an eminent dancing-master say that the minuet had been the study of his whole life The minuet was the most fashionable dance in the late 18th century ballroom.
The 'noble' style was danced both socially, by ladies and gentlemen in the ballroom, and professionally, by actors and dancers in the theatre. As you will be often under the necessity of dancing a minuet, I would have you dance it very well. Remember that the graceful motion of the arms, the giving of your hand, and the putting off and putting on of your hat genteelly, are the material parts of a gentleman's dancing. Skip to main content. Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab.
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As the tempo here is not more rapid than in the other minuets, it is evident that the term only refers to the character of the music, and is not used in the modern sense. As we learn from Pohl's 'Haydn' p. We find one of Haydn's innovations in some of the later works, in putting the trio into a key more remote from that of the minuet, instead of into one of those more nearly related Quartet in F, op.
This relation of the tonics was a favourite one with Beethoven. In only one of Haydn's quartets op. Here the trio of the second minuet has three variations, one of which is played, instead of the original trio, after each repetition of the minuet. It is no uncommon thing in the works of Haydn to meet with another variety of the minuet.
The finales of his smaller works are often written in a 'Tempo di Minuetto. In the piano sonatas and trios many examples will be met with.
Suite in The Old Style: III. Minuet
A well-known instance of a similar movement by Mozart is furnished in the finale of his sonata in F for piano and violin. Haydn's predilection for the minuet is further shown by the fact that in several of his sonatas in three movements the minuet and trio replace the slow movement, which is altogether wanting. With Mozart the form of the minuet is identical with that of Haydn's; it is the spirit that is different.
Suavity, tenderness, and grace, rather than overflowing animal spirits, are now the prevailing characteristics. It is in Mozart's concerted instrumental works serenatas, etc. In many of the earlier symphonies also we find only three movements, and even in several of the later and finer symphonies e. On the other hand, in the serenades and divertimenti, especial prominence is given to this movement.
The variety of character and colouring in these minuets is the more striking as the form is approximately the same in all. One example will suffice in illustration. The first minuet in D major is given to strings alone; the first trio also in D major is a quartet for the four horns; the second in G is a trio for flute, oboe, and bassoon; while the third in D minor is for the seven wind instruments in combination.
After the last repetition of the minuet, a coda for all the instruments concludes the movement. The three trios are as strongly contrasted in musical character as in orchestral colour. Many similar instances might easily be given from the works of Mozart. To Beethoven we owe the transformation of the minuet into the Scherzo.
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Even in his first works this alteration is made. Of the three piano trios, op. The examination of the different varieties of the scherzo will be treated elsewhere Scherzo ; it will be sufficient here to explain that the difference between the minuet and the scherzo is one of character rather than of form. The time is frequently quicker; the rhythm is more varied see, for instance, the scherzi in Beethoven's 4th Symphony, in the Sonata, op. Still Beethoven does not entirely abandon the older minuet.