Research Results For 'Minuet'

IGNACY PADEREWSKI

Ignacy Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and Prime Minister of Poland. He was born in 1860 and died in 1941. He composed Minuet in G.
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GAVOTTE

The gavotte or gavot was a stately and ceremonious dance, like the minuet, which developed into a stage dance too elaborate for performance in the ball- room. The Gavotte originated as an air for a dance with two strains, each of four or eight bars, in 2/4 or 4/4 time, the starting notes occupying half a bar. Like the minuet, it was introduced for free treatment into suites, sonatas, etc. The name is said to be derived from the Gavots, the inhabitants of the Gap, in France.
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MINUET

The Minuet is a stately form of dance which came to Paris in 1650 and reached its greatest popularity in the reign of Louis XV. It combined gracefulness with ceremonial formality, and was usually to 3/4 time music. Ludwig van Beethoven developed the minuet into the scherzo, under which name the movement holds an important position in symphonies and sonatas.
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SCHERZO

In music a scherzo is a playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.
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SONATA

Sonata is an important form of musical composition comprising classically four movements. The modern form of sonata was fixed by Emanual Bach in the 18th century. The same general structure prevails in symphonies, instrumental trios, quartets, etc., and even in classical concertos. The
sonata form, distinctively, characterises the quick opening movement, which may have a short, slow introduction; the second, or slow, movement is either in the song or variation form; third comes the playful minuet or the more modern scherzo; then the quick finale in the rondo form. But both form and order are sometimes exceptional.
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SYMPHONY

A symphony is an elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the symphonic poems of Franz Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
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