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Minuet in the Classical period. A minuet ( / ˌmɪnjuˈɛt /; also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3. 4 time. The English word was adapted from the Italian minuetto and the French menuet. The term also describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully ...
Minuet step. The minuet step is the dance step performed in the dance minuet. It "is composed of four plain straight Steps or Walks, and may be performed forwards, backward, sideways, &c." ( Tomlinson 1735, 103) or in a square. [citation needed] The steps are often referred to by direction to distinguish them.
Gavotte. The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source. [1] According to another reference, the word gavotte is a generic term for a variety of French ...
Orfeo ed Euridice ( [orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with ...
Westminster Bridge on Lord Mayor's Day by Canaletto, 1746 (detail). The Water Music (German: Wassermusik) is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I 's request for a concert on the River Thames .
The dance scene was one resisted by the theatrical management at the premiere, and Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte prevailed only with difficulty in including it. [14] Perhaps the most elaborate dance scene in Mozart's operas is a party scene at the end of the first act of Don Giovanni (1787): guests at his party dance three dances ...
People dancing bourrée in a folk ball. The bourrée ( Occitan: borrèia; [1] also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. [2] The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm. However, it is somewhat quicker, and its phrase starts with a ...
Badinerie: a brief quick dance in 2 4 time that merged with the Scherzo to give rise to a movement of fast tempo in duple meter common in the Romanticism as a substitute to the Minuet. Bourrée: A light, quick dance in 4 4 time. A bourée begins with the last beat of a bar and continues with two or three bars until the 4th beat of one bar takes ...