Talk:Minuet
From Academic Kids
Adapted from 1911 enc.
With an OCR error. 1/8 time would be stupid. Dictionary.com returns "A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France."
the Oxford English Dictionary says "A slow, stately dance, in triple measure, for two dancers; derived from France in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and fashionable throughout the eighteenth." In other words, 3/4 since they didn't specify 3/8 or 3/16.
I thought that a minuet is in 6/8 time, but I haven't changed the entry in that regard. User:Wetman
- You're part right - the most familiar type of minuet (at least in classical music) is in the French style - it's slow and stately, and is written in 3/4. However, in Italy, the minuet was considerably faster, and it's often written in 3/8 or sometimes 6/8 (you sometimes get these at the end of Italian overtures). I'll tweak the article a bit to reflect this. --Camembert
- (Afterthought) - actually, I've feeling I've seen minuets by Rameau in 6/8 as well (which means maybe Lully wrote them that way also), but I could be imagining it. --Camembert
I need help
I need info on 'minuets' for my music project. does any one has any useful suggestions of what info i could use? Thanks!
Minuet, from Star Trek
Once the Star Trek character has her own article, the paragraph in this article can be shortened to the bare minimum necessary for disambiguation. ShutterBugTrekker 19:41, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
