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After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy.
While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet.
She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all.
The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut.
Mr. Gregory clapped his hands as the frustrated students tried to master the steps of the waltz or minuet.
He proved that his seemingly limited minuet couplet could, in its own special way, undertake the epical.
He seems fond of coqueting with the House of Commons, and is perpetually calling the Speaker out to dance a minuet with him, before he begins.
Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in.
In the show's finale, boys and girls from Beckfield Lane and Burton Stone Lane schools danced a minuet on the floodlit steps of the museum.
A group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo.
All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet.
Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet.
The first was the private, then public, minuet of reassurances to the two visitors.
Perversely deciding to stay, Onegin is drawn despite himself into a minuet of Russian country life.
The sonata has five short movements, ending with two dances, a bourrée and a minuet.
The term was commonly used in Baroque instrumental music, such as concertos, and regularly in minuet-and-trio structures, to indicate the repeat of the minuet.
Some later examples introduced more complex techniques, such as canon, and some treat the reprise of the minuet after the trio with elaborate embellishments.
We don't do the dainty minuet of the newspaper editorial page.
He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Sometimes the minuet and sarabande changed places, just as in modern times do the andante and scherzo.
One, who recognized Judith, swept his aside with a gesture appropriate to a minuet.
The glide waltz, the redowa, the stately minuet, give only the slow and graceful motions.
I say, mother, do you remember teaching me to dance a minuet, when I was little?
So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay.
Moreover, his earlier chamber compositions were in three movements, the minuet having been added for the first time in the octet.
A minuet, taken scherzando, is also most original and happy.
I must then forgive his ignorance of the minuet and quadrilles.
After the minuet I danced twelve forlanas with the greatest vigour.
I had never seen the minuet danced with more grace and spirit.
The orchestra began to fill the room with the strains of the minuet.
In place of the old minuet movement Beethoven introduced the scherzo.
The minuet from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is a notable example.
But I found my mistake, when I heard the sound of a kit playing a minuet over our heads.
So if even he finds the minuet taxing, it gives you an idea of how challenging it was.
As it is, the allegro and minuet alone partake of the immortal.
Henry Esmond gave his hand in a stately minuet to Diana of the crossways.
The experience of Miss Emmerson went no further than the simple evolutions of the country dance, or the deliberate and dignified procession of the minuet.
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