| 单词 | minuet |
| 例句 | Meanwhile up in Quincy, that very friend was also dancing a minuet with his own political ambitions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “He must have cut a mean minuet,” she said, but called her uncle, who responded with alacrity. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I struck up a pretty minuet and watched through my sliver of the doorway as they all entered, my preceptor among them, and sat around the table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The minuet is in C, but the melody is a little too low for a flute46 , and the bassoonist would also be more comfortable playing higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The country dances I found pleasant in the highest degree; the minuets too pretty for my taste, and dry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The surprising thing is,” said Violet, “when he flunked out of charm school, it was because he couldn’t learn the minuet.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t do the minuet much anymore, Mama,” Ben grinned. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An orchestra played minuets in a corner, and servants slipped through the gathered nobles in a dance of their own as they refilled and cleared plates and cups and silverware. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My day had been uncommonly full of the duties of the servant, my throat felt dewy and raw, and I was in no little discomfort, standing before the remaining company, fevered, playing minuets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This constant Victorian minuet of false grace consumed time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The minuet finale went especially well, ending with a gentle sigh, as if in mid-air. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z The orchestra offered a taut, energetic performance of the brooding work, deftly conveying the contrast between the stormy elements and the gracious minuet that unexpectedly surfaces, rendered with genteel precision. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It's a succession of genre pieces – novelette, minuet, romanza and gavotte – but apart from a precocious fluency, none of them reveals much of the future composer. Britten: String Quartet No 2; Three Divertimenti; etc 2010-08-26T21:34:00Z In view of that tempo, and given that this was far from being a long program, it was a pity the conductor chose to omit the repeats in the da capo of the minuet. Jun Märkl’s SSO concert a success — with reservations 2013-01-11T17:54:41Z He performed the dancing minuet movement, and indeed the whole symphony, to his own choreography. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z He could be counted on for late-night minuets in the wide entry hall, which doubled as a ballroom. Berkeley Plantation, where George Washington danced ’til dawn 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A spirited minuet and galloping vivace brought the audience to its feet for a standing ovation before Koopman led the orchestra in an encore, a repeat of Rameau’s “Rondeau.” Review | NSO presents an exuberant panorama of early music 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Skerritt's face as the Don dances a clumsy minuet with Kitri is worth a dozen triple pirouettes: He's achieved, just for a few seconds, bliss. PNB's 'Don Quixote' provide spectacle and story 2012-02-06T22:50:04Z Most of the second act is the staging of an acid trip, during which a monk self-immolates and Abraham Lincoln dances a minuet with Clark Gable and Colonel Custer. Broadway, wasted: The 10 best musicals about drugs 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The fourth movement’s minuets were swift and graceful. Review: Boston Symphony Chamber Players Balance Acoustics and Expression 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Once the opium dropper comes out and the minuets transition to hip-hop, you know you’re in for a good time. Review | In Apple TV+’s initial smattering of shows, only ‘Dickinson’ is a delicious surprise 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Elrod’s inspired performance is the engine that drives the plot forward at an increasingly breathless pace, even as Mr. Ives’s deftly turned rhymes maintain the reliable rhythms of a minuet. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z The minuet was too cloying for my taste. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z David Macdonald’s “Little Suite” was simple and clever, especially in a minuet that lurched as if danced by two left feet. Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Playing parlor games, dancing the minuet, making snide comments — aristocrats sure do know how to party. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z But Mr. Lacombe also highlighted the work’s gracefulness, in passages like the start of the minuet in the second movement and the hints of street music in the third. Music Review: With Subtlety and Power, Observing Mahler?s Moment 2011-05-22T21:35:57Z Serious uphill cycling is always a minuet of pain and pleasure. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Nor does the opera encompass the elegant diplomacies and strategic minuets by which Chou and Kissinger, seated at the fringe, brought their bosses to this encounter. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z The seated dinner, with its minuet of invitation and acceptance, its formalities and protocols, its culinary and dietary challenges, its inherent requirements of guest and host, alike is under threat, many say. Saving the Endangered Dinner Party 2012-11-28T23:49:55Z The minuet was exquisite, and the wonder and sadness of the subsequent scherzo were immaculately done. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-05-24T21:31:00Z Prodigiously gifted and bursting with vigor at the piano, Caine is the uncommon player who sounds just as deft on a deep groove, a classical minuet or a freely improvised odyssey. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “He interpreted almost the whole score in terms of minuets, waltzes and polkas,” Mr. Spence said recently from London. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z Like all piano students, Mr. Lang played a lot of Bach as a child, from the easy minuets to the encyclopedic “Well-Tempered Clavier.” Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The tempi are generally on the fast side, but it is only in the minuet of No 39 that things are pushed a little too hard. Mozart: Symphonies Nos 39 & 40 | CD Review 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z Can you describe the sound that you’re trying to create with the first chord of the minuet, after that pause? Beethoven’s Insane Beauty, According to a Star Pianist 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z First violinist Mihaela Martin tended to dominate far too often, with a knife-edged sound and some perilous intonation at the high end of the E string, in the minuet of Haydn’s Op. Too many weak moments for the skilled Michelangelo String Quartet 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The minuet was anything but a dance, its elegance stilted and uncertain, the slow movement mysterious and wrenching where you’d least expect it, in the plainest of cadences. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet even in a stylish courante or minuet, Bach the ingenious master of counterpoint is ever-present. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Beethoven’s responses — from the regal Alla Marcia Maestoso that opens the set to the transformation of the waltz into an elegant Mozartean minuet in the final variation — make that point in any case. Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-11T22:25:52Z A wealthy commoner, he craves acceptance by those highborn and dedicates himself to learning their refined pastimes, like fencing and dancing the minuet. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z From there, variations surface with nods to Classical and Baroque forms: a dancerly minuet or rondo, a concerto grosso of angular strings, a wandering ricercare. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Whereas the slow movement was romanticized, with all manner of soulful swells on the phrases of its main theme, the minuet, by contrast, was taken at a stylishly fast clip, one beat to the bar. Jun Märkl’s SSO concert a success — with reservations 2013-01-11T17:54:41Z The puckish parts of the second movement prevailed over the graceful nature of the minuet. Eschenbach and NSO find coherence elusive in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In a guest post today she explores the minuet in all its complexity. Motherlode: Please, Go to Sleep 2011-07-06T20:29:25Z Even when the reading veered toward heaviness, in both minuets, Mr. Levine usually applied an unexpected balance or a thoughtful phrasing touch that effectively disarmed any objections. Music Review: The Sweeping Gestures of a Swiveling Maestro 2011-01-24T23:19:26Z In between: a series of chords, each left to resonate a bit in space, charting the journey from the aggressive high spirits of the fugue to the courtly minuet. A Chord Vanishing Into Eternity: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z He captured the Beethovenian grandeur of the pensive slow movement and played the finale, a playful homage to a courtly minuet, with crisp articulation and high spirits. Music Review: The Russian Pianist Denis Kozhukhin at Zankel Hall 2010-06-27T21:08:00Z Perhaps “Figaro” is also accountable for the concerto’s affecting mix of effervescence and melancholy, and for the subtly stagy flourish of its finale, in which a poignant minuet interrupts a buoyant rondo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z The song was a minuet, casting conservatives as obstacles to progress as they sang: Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z That doesn’t mean it was portly or lumbering, but quite the opposite in a delicate, deliciously shaped second movement and a light minuet. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Least pleasing was the opening Bach work, the first French suite, best in the slow sarabande and second minuet, where he added complex embellishments on the repeats. Pianist Christopher Taylor cranks the bombast dial a little too high 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Asked to pick a favorite page from the program, he went for the Beethoven, choosing the transition from the penultimate variation, a blistering fugue, to the concluding minuet. Beethoven’s Insane Beauty, According to a Star Pianist 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Dances are introduced and taught to the crowd - the minuet, the hoe-down, the tango and the Charleston. Dare to dance 2011-08-08T00:35:42Z But once his calls attract an unattached female, the two shift into elegance, bowing to each other as if about to do a minuet. Around Town for Children for Aug. 2-8 2013-08-01T22:28:16Z No one busted out a minuet, for instance, but Willow pulled the long straw with a “futuristic jazz” number. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Willow's out, Sasha's in as competition twists, turns 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z As we soon learned, the master’s minuet led to some extramarital hanky-panky with the wife. Big Dance Theater’s small works and major impression 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The nobles with their tall white wigs graciously strut, dancing the minuet with a lazy, aristocratic bearing. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead of the conventional movement layout — fast, slow, a minuet and a fast finale — this one begins with an Adagio, followed by a Presto; the final two movements are in the conventional order. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z His way with the flighty, delicate final minuet variation is especially beguiling. Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z Adhering mostly to Classical models, it did break new ground by, for example, replacing the traditional third-movement minuet with a scherzo. Music Review: From Mahler, Love, Despair, Fairy Tales And Animals 2010-12-03T22:40:00Z In their modest formats, with drones and unisons, careful canons and elegant minuets, these juvenile works have a schoolroom feel. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z He has discontinued the elbowing, apparently, while sustaining that courtside calm, still looking out there with fascination at the same minuet after 52 years of coaching. Jim Larrañaga’s best skill — uniting players from different backgrounds 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Boeing has agreed to improve its Remote Vision System, 3D cameras that feed a console where an airman guides a refueling boom during a midair minuet to connect with another plane. Air Force says Boeing tanker’s camera repair to take another 19 months 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Boeing has agreed to greatly improve its Remote Vision System, 3D cameras that feed a console where an airman guides a refueling boom during the midair minuet to connect with another plane. Boeing’s troubled Air Force tanker hits new delay 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Out of nowhere the concerto roams into a world of fancifully skipping minuets before returning more forcefully to the beginning drama. Review: Is it finally time to take Saint-Saëns seriously? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The standout performance comes from Ben Lauer, whose Croquet Man almost minuets, rather than walks, as he sets out his wickets. Review | Outdoor setting suits Faction of Fools’ merry ‘Missed Connections’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The same might one day be said about Mr. Musk, though it sure would be fun to watch him break a horse or dance a minuet. Disinformation Governance Board: DHS launches war on free speech 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There was a dramatic story to be told, contrasting the two presidents, and addressing the residual racism that endures in the wake of Washington’s personal minuet with slavery, our original sin. Review | Washington slept there: Retracing his travels to unite the new nation 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z One of the Taliban’s more complicated new-old relationships will be with Pakistan, which for two decades engaged in the delicate minuet of formally allying itself with the U.S. while serving as a Taliban sanctuary. Afghanistan's neighbors see opportunity and peril in Taliban takeover 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z But she disproved the claim that there are infinitely many minuets to be composed in this way. Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’ 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z To Piedmont-Palladino, the real challenge in what she called an ongoing minuet between security and access “doesn’t involve keeping people away. It involves making that space more welcoming to civic behavior,” she said. Capitol fences highlight delicate dance over safety, access 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z You might even wonder at the whole concept of the news conference minuet after the same awkward questions and the same strained answers. Analysis | Once obvious and thrilling, three college football coaching hires have lost their luster 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a ‘fantasy film,’ as the two leaders engage in an extraordinary diplomatic minuet.” Joe Biden officially becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee on convention’s second night 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z There were gentler moments, too: Radioactivity disseminating its air of beguiling yet menacing mystery, Tour de France slowly unfurling like a Schubert minuet. Kraftwerk, Tribal Gathering 1997: past, present and future become one 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Assuming all Haydn’s composed bars were different, there would be 16 consecutive choices from six options, producing only 6¹⁶ possible minuets. Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’ 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Then they settled into a blur of sonatas and minuets. A 92-Year-Old Piano Teacher Won’t Let Students Miss Bach in the Pandemic 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The Mountaineers used 12-2 run within the first four minuets of the second half to overcome a 32-27 halftime deficit and led the rest of the way. Forrest fills stat line leading Appalachian St. past Troy 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z An entrepreneur devised this ingenious scam less than a decade ago, and it involved multiple fixes, a sort of corruption minuet. For the Wealthy, Sports Opened a Back Door to Elite Colleges 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z On the more positive side, when we studied the life of George Washington, we danced the minuet and sampled Colonial-era foods. Opinion | Learning from the experience, not just from books 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The Bill Clinton impeachment documents reveal a months-long minuet between Clinton attorney David Kendall and the office of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr as they jockeyed over whether Clinton would testify. Opinion | Mueller has waited long enough. It’s subpoena time. 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z This minuet with high explosives appears to have been successfully executed on this occasion, but that offers no guarantees it will work in the future. Syria crisis: danger awaits in rush for influence on crowded battlefield 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The mystery genre is a minuet between disruption and order. Tana French’s Intimate Crime Fiction 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In David Carr’s memoir “The Night of the Gun,” he called this kind of relationship a “minuet of misery.” Running for the Wrong Reasons 1457-03-31T05:00:00Z The minuets also showed that Fed members were concerned about the impact of a slowing China on Mexico and Canada, the two biggest trading partners for the US. US Federal Reserve worried about increasing economic risks - BBC News 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z All told, he wrote 626 works, from simple minuets to his Requiem Mass, which was left unfinished when he died right before his 35th birthday. Your Wednesday Briefing 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Their minuet in Kentucky last week on the day Kim Davis was released from jail shows the enmity that exists between them. Republican debate may be Trump’s show, but who else will shine? 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z And just when their routines seemed far removed from Gluck's world, the dancers would do something that resembled a minuet or other period dance. Tenor Florez soars in Royal Opera's Gluck season opener 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z In her June 21 op-ed column, “The needed debate over debates,” Ruth Marcus noted that the presidential debates promote “a minutely choreographed minuet.” Get rid of presidential debate rehearsals 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z His foolish and his profound dance a perpetual minuet. Phil Jackson’s Moment of Truth Has Arrived 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z There’s a fine balance, with light but intense flavors of white fruits and a grapefruit-like crispness playing off each other in a delicate minuet A charming, subtle, feminine Champagne. The Best $600 Champagne You've Never Heard Of 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The name harkens back to formal dances of the 1800s, the minuet and ladies in hoop skirts but is, in fact, a laid-back chance to socialize, laugh and, if you wish, dance. Back Roads: French dance form lives on in Austin 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z That will never be fully achieved, but the existing format, of fixed-time answers and rebuttals and little candidate-to-candidate interchange, promotes this air of a minutely choreographed minuet. The debate worth having over presidential debates 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In his June 7 op-ed column, “The super PAC minuet,” George F. Will used a straw man to argue that reformers want to regulate campaign speech by regulating campaign contributions. Here’s how to really boost free speech 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He was then dropped in the penultimate climb of Sunday's mountain stage and was lying 27th overall, 35 minuets and 57 seconds behind leader Alberto Contador of Spain. Porte pulls out of Giro d'Italia after miserable tour 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Then I spotted, well off to the west, and rather far out at sea, a familiar minuet of stick figures, rising and falling, backlit by the afternoon sun. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Compared with what he called the “unpredictable insanity” of the modern war against terrorism, World War II and its clearly defined battlefronts and enemies seemed to him an “ancient minuet.” Richard C. Hottelet, CBS newsman and one of the last of the “Murrow Boys,” dies at 97 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Arranging the project involved a delicate diplomatic minuet and included meetings in Vilna with Mr. Brent, government officials and leaders of the Jewish community, which now numbers 5,000. Split Up by Holocaust, Top Collection of Yiddish Works Will Reunite Digitally 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z As a record producer he oversaw Lovers Concerto by The Toys, based on a Bach minuet, and the soundtrack to the Jane Fonda film, Barbarella. The original Jersey Boy, and the inspiration for Cider With Rosie 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The action was a whole dimension away from the staged minuet of battle re-enactments. Falling in love with medieval armed combat 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z We walked through an entry gate set in an almost impenetrable wall of greenery and followed a narrow, shaded path lined with knee-high polka-dotted mushrooms piping out a Bach minuet. The Theme of This Fun-Park: Charm 2014-02-01T01:05:49Z They clicked glasses and drank to her health standing, and little Maria danced with “Betty Lewis’ Uncle George himself,” for Washington did not disdain the stately measures of the minuet. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Peg gained admittance, in male costume, to the affair, and contrived to become her rival's partner in a minuet. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Here Mozart, drawing paper from his pocket, in a few minutes composed a minuet, which, with a letter, he gave to the distressed man, desiring him to take it to his publisher. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Time was when—as in the days of the minuet de la cour—the carriage constituted the dance. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z We are engaged, I think--" she paused, her attention divided between myself and Boccherini's minuet, the low strains of which she was sending through the room--"for every afternoon--this week--except Saturday. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z But the apex of the tavern’s glory was reached when the great peace ball was held officially to celebrate the end of the war, and Washington led the minuet in the Fredericksburg town hall. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z And in the gaiety of her heart, Lady Betty lifted her sacque, and danced two or three steps of a minuet. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z They were back with Boone in his gay young boyhood, when he danced minuets with the Governor's daughter, and entertained his college friends in lordly style on the old plantation. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Once, in yonder hall, Washington, they say, Led the New Year's ball, Stateliest of beaux; O that minuet, Maids and matrons gay! Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z He'll dance the Kilmainham minuet, as the saying is, take my word for it, and serve him right; but Lord Camden really thinks it's serious. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z You--who but for an accident would have danced the minuet like a peasant! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He fearlessly rose and poured forth such denunciations against the executive in parliament, as would have brought any other man to Kilmainham and its minuet. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The English court’s decision is a brave and serious attempt to halt America’s and Britain’s dangerous legal minuet. Op-Ed Contributor: Prisoners Are Not Pawns 2012-02-14T05:07:01Z They hold themselves very straight, heads well back, as in a minuet, and do various figures. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The minuet and the waltz were both in some degree derived from it, and it had much in common with the famous Seguidilla of Spain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z When she had gone through a Polish minuet and a single country-dance or schottische, she went away at once, after flashing through the room like a meteor. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z I could see passing figures shadowed upon the curtains, and music floated forth on a ripple of laughter, gavotte being linked to minuet and pavane in an endless melody. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z She dropped him a stately curtsey, that would have served for the prelude to a Court minuet in the palmy days of Queen Charlotte. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Lady Mary Pepys was too sweet, and they danced their minuet perfectly. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The original court minuet was a grave and simple dance, although it did not retain its simplicity for long. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He traces this in part to periods of concentrated listening to the minuets in Bach’s French Suites, keyboard works normally taken at a lively clip. | Westchester: Violin Masters Tackle Brahms, Bach and the Bard at Purchase College 2012-01-21T03:45:50Z She made me take her through a valeta, a minuet, a mazurka, and she danced elegantly, but with a little of Carmen's ostentation—her dash and devilry. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Mr. Bradley describes quite a complex ecosystem at his restaurants, with tenant and restaurant dancing a minuet revolving around favors and rights. Living Above a Restaurant in New York City 2012-01-07T03:57:17Z While Pitt was prancing fantastic minuets before his correspondents, Fox, without wasting a word, went straight to the point; and his letters are pregnant, graphic, and forcible. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The fact that the measure of the minuet has become incorporated in the structure of the symphony shows how important was its place in the polite world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He knew that the careful people of that day would have shuddered at the thought of dancing even a minuet in public. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z "Ah, well," she laughed, "some are bred for the minuet, and some for——" "—Less tomfoolery," he answered. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z We were just going to the minuet----" "I will deal with the matter, sire. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z However, I’ll try to persuade him to dance a minuet presently.’ The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z The quadrille, properly danced, has many of the graces of the minuet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z There will be a grand minuet of Cathay, but I will not detain you now with farther particulars of this entertainment. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "You are pledged for a minuet and a valeta with me—you remember?" The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Strains of a gay minuet play upon these tragic tones like rainbow colors on the angles of a glacier. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Harlequin had recruited a columbine and a shepherdess, and he introduced these ladies as partners for the promised minuet. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z There were eight couples, and very good music—4 violins playing Boccherini's minuet. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z To say truth, this exotick minuet of strange perfumes and processions, was not the sanest amusement for a maid who should have lived always among the roses. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z And at some great eventful scene Full many a dance the chamber graced, Pavanes and sarabands were paced, And minuets when Anne was queen. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z She gaily announces that they intend to dance, and that Werther must join her in the minuet. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The minuet was Tom’s greatest triumph and Fan’s masterpiece, and with the very first steps success was assured and went on increasing with each movement, till at the last figure the applause became delirious. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z They were much applauded, and were obliged to repeat the minuet after a little rest. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z "I have stepped a minuet with him," replied Phyllida, now more than ever on her guard against the steel-grey eyes of the elderly gentleman. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z That evening the orchestra played a minuet of Mozart so charmingly that Lydia rose, and saying, "We really must dance to that," made a sweeping bow. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z The gay assemblage within the parsonage has no knowledge of this brewing tragedy, so the minuet continues till the curtain descends. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Marcel might have broke his heart, before his pupil had acquired three steps of a minuet. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Maybe he could have warmed up to the operatic challenge with something more modest, say Mozart’s youthful “La Finta Semplice,” about a moron, or maybe a minuet? Dead Poet Brightens Met’s ‘Don Giovanni’: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-10-16T23:24:17Z Miss Morton, amid a deal of simpering, confessed she favoured a minuet on occasions, so Mr. Lovely hurried off to fetch Mr. Chalkley before the musicians began to play the opening bars of the dance. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z This is the first step in an elaborate minuet. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z To the eye of an uninitiated observer, the pair might be dancing a few of the more open figures of the minuet. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z The pasta appears moist, the steam organic and the minuet of drip and hand nothing more than a diner on the verge of a blissful bite. In Food Commercials, Flying Doughnuts and Big Budgets 2011-10-08T18:30:13Z They crush with piles and tear with thundering wheel The rainbow arches from the torrent's spray; The frightened Fairies, sure of no appeal, Pair off in mournful minuets away. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z "Odds my life, Tom, why won't you tread a minuet with a handsome young woman?" The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z But her greatest triumph was a certain minuet step which she executed along the edge of the footlights, first from right to left, and then back again. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z As a minuet only needs ten performers it was very simple to polish that up. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z They were playing a minuet which at that time was danced at the French court. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z The favourite dance at the time was the Spanish minuet, which Mary frequently performed with her young consort, to the admiration of the whole court. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z "I fear you thought I was presumptuous in offering my hand for the minuet." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Before Nathalie could decide whether the couplet meant only to count your threads at night while Polly was far away, the dancers had swung into place and were going through the minuet. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z For the minuet—well, there was cheese-cloth in red and yellow that Marie had had on her canoe; everyone could powder her hair and contrive a ’kerchief. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z I shall ask her to dance the minuet with me. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z He liked to play cards, and he liked to dance—the minuet and cotillions and country-dances. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z They walked back to the ballroom almost in silence, and above the chatter of folk in the lobby, heard the opening of a plaintive minuet. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z I heard many other nice things during that dance and the following ones, for the duke invited me for almost all the minuets and quadrilles, and talked to me all the time. The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel 2011-07-10T02:00:25.767Z The dances—the Indian dance, the minuet and the Russian dance—were beautiful and everyone applauded them, though they liked the Indian dance best. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z I hope some one will be able to play a minuet fit to be heard. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z At a great ball, where we chanced to be in company, I danced a minuet with him; but this, too, passed without results. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Charles, having disposed her friend, offered his hand to Phyllida and soon they were stepping the minuet with infinite grace, admired by every one who saw them. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z By this act the Staroste quite gained my favor; one who is so brave and so strong, can be pardoned even if he does not like to dance the minuet. The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel 2011-07-10T02:00:25.767Z “I know how to dance the minuet,” suggested Helen. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z How unfair! he was my partner in the minuet. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z She gave a slight start, for near her, almost at her elbow, stood the young seaman she had observed only a short time before, when the minuet was in progress. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Every one congratulated me on my fine musical taste; they assured me that this minuet would make me spoken about, and that I merited the louded praises. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I am playing several quadrilles and minuets from a book. The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel 2011-07-10T02:00:25.767Z The spot was a favourite haunt of Gwynneth, who would catch herself humming the old English songs there, and thinking of patches and powder and the minuet. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z You see it all started with the minuet—with which Professor Fafalata closed his dancing class just before the Christmas holidays. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z It was a kind of minuet that Marie Antoinette had introduced as a pendant to the minuet proper, adding other steps, and renaming it. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z But his composure hardly ever at any ball survived the minuet. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z But then should I have rode so lightly, looked so pretty, or learned to dance minuets, and dress like a lady? Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z After an exchange of gifts the French ladies and gentlemen entertained the Indians by dancing the minuet. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z As with the butterfly dance so many of the performers knew the minuet that it needed only two rehearsals. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z The overture has an introduction, fugue, tuneful minuet, and a fine march in D major after the manner of Handel's Scipio march. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He praised them for opening the bal masqué of the new administration with these slow minuet steps, and preparing themselves for the waltz of the wedding and the grandfather's-dance of the allegiance-day. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z To build a city he had only to play a rigadoon and a minuet; but the other hero destroyed them by the sound of rams' horns. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He bowed low, clicking his heels as neatly as though he were her partner in a minuet. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z I am asked by the president of the United Service Club," he said, "to tell you that there will be an interval of ten minutes between the minuet and the next offering of the program. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z Do you remember the evening you taught me the country dance that I said was like an old-fashioned minuet? Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Mrs. Gordon said the way he led me through a minuet was adorable; and Major Andr� told me that in a skirmish or a cavalry charge, no one could match him. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z That tune, however, is not very well suited to the minuet, which is the only dance that we ever learned. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z I like Bone's description of the old rooms filled with men and women of degree dancing minuets under guttering sconces. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z And Mr. Curtis made a feint of holding out an imaginary dress, like an old lady in a minuet, and courtesied profoundly to the company around. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Among the works is Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony, which Hardy wrote after hearing the minuet from the composer's Symphony No 39. Underground poet - Heaney diverts Tube travellers 2011-01-07T00:03:03Z The door was open, and instead of finding the students bending over a yeast culture or copying the food constituents of cereals, he saw twenty or more girls coming down the hall practising the minuet. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z While financial markets may be relieved that the U.K.'s post-election minuet is finally over, the coalition government is in many ways an awkward one, perhaps most starkly in terms of foreign policy and defense. U.K. Coalition Sets Up Foreign-Policy Clash 2010-05-12T03:43:00Z “It’s going to be a tricky minuet,” said Tom Doctoroff, chief executive for Greater China for JWT, the worldwide advertising agency. 2010-01-20T04:53:00Z The minuet was over at last, and the ballroom insufferably hot. A Blot on the Scutcheon The minuet makes a pretty dance to finish the evening. Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions The minuet, she explained, was part of some physical culture she was working into the course, and he heartily approved. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z It was the old-fashioned lancers, but the deliberate strain lent the familiar measures something of the stately effect of the minuet. The Valiants of Virginia "I reached the station twenty minuets ago, sir." Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck The same rule must be observed with regard to the airs of bravura, of action, of secondary action, as also with regard to the minuet and rondeau. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern We were going to see the Belle's Stratagem, with the masquerade, and the song, and the minuet, and the new French dancers. Stories for Helen The very dancing-master cried out, "Grace,—more grace, if you please, Miss Olivia," at every step of her minuet; and the riding-master's eternal exhortation was, "Sit as if the whole world was watching you, miss." Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) I can imagine what it looked like, with the men in white stocks and flowered waistcoats and the women in their crinolines and red-heeled slippers, bowing to the minuet under that candle-light! The Valiants of Virginia They were talking about a ball to be given by a certain duke, one of Saavedra's friends, where they were going to revive the ancient and classic minuet. Maximina So I lingered on, dancing attendance on officials who frowned, and dancing the minuet with ladies who smiled. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois "We saw her dance the minuet with Colonel Candler, and my Lord said he had lost." Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The minuet is formed by this time, and her ladyship is performing her part to perfection, I doubt not. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days There was also a quilt made of silk patches, each patch taken from a dress that some colonial dame had worn when she danced the stately minuet at a great function in Boston or Albany. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Never again to watch that peerless form walk the minuet; nor see it lift the gray horse over a fence with the grace and spirit that seemed inseparable from it! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 He was now and then pleased, as they knew, to walk with one of them the slow measure of the minuet, and then to lift up and kiss his small partner in the dance. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington He was married to a dark-eyed beauty who gave parties in her large ballroom, and who led the minuets and gavottes better than any of her guests. The Child's Book of American Biography Lady Betty was soon surrounded by her admirers, and showing off her dainty figure in the minuet and Saraband. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days He could not dance the second figure in the minuet with the Princesse de Cl�ves, and the Queen called me to take his place.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier At Versailles it was to the air of Amaryllis that the minuet was walked. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Later in the evening, Mrs. Mack danced the minuet for us, holding up her skirt and singing in a delicate old-lady voice. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself Late in the evening those that were fond of Terpsichorean amusement were ushered into a room where the tapestry was covered and there spent several hours in minuets, waltzes, quadrilles, etc. Every-Day Errors of Speech And holding out her dress in minuet fashion, she courtesied deeply, and left the room. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day He knew exactly what could be permitted: in the dining-room, drunkards yelling filthy jests; in the drawing-room, polite gentlemen stalking or tripping through their minuets. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions At Versailles love strolled on red heels through a minuet. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Gallant beaux, such as are associated with Reynolds's portraits, appear, and hand them into sedan-chairs or lead them through stately minuets to the notes of Rameau, Couperin, and Arne. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 She heard once more the pianoforte melodies which she had known long ago, and the height of her amazement was reached when the Sultan invited her to dance—a minuet. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries At one of these assemblies we first saw a minuet called the samacueca. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia I could not prescribe the grace with which he took off and put back his hat at the bow preceding the minuet. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun I stopped the band-master; I entreated and implored him; in the anguish of the moment I promised I would write him six minuets, with double trios each, for the county-ball. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. It was the very end of the minuet. Francezka Ugh ran up a flag emblazoned with the legend: Diplomacy And Agriculture, then planted beans all around the ship, while Brad postured and danced the minuet. The Sloths of Kruvny Not for me were the delights of minuet, cotillion and Roger de Coverly; for I had neither the costume nor the courage to penetrate into the ballroom. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Watching his chance, he waylaid Helen when her vigilant chaperon was momentarily absorbed in a suggestion that private theatricals and the rehearsal of a minuet would relieve the general tedium while the snow held. The Silent Barrier When the old French kings danced minuets with their most virtuous and respected maids of honor on private stages, they were enlivened by tallow flames. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 It does not appear that the royal couple took the floor, but "other minuets succeeded by the younger branches of the royal family with ladies of distinction." Old and New London Volume I All my diffidence was gone,—I threw myself in the bandmaster's way, I begged, I prayed, in my distress I promised him six new minuets with double trios for the annual ball. Weird Tales. Vol. I No stately minuet or mincing cotillion was the order of the evening. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge The melody changes to a minuet, and the lady in the portrait moves, smiling, from the tarnished gilt frame that surrounds her—then a childish voice says: “Mother, are you asleep?” Threads of Grey and Gold Our artist had performed a minuet, a jig, and a deux temps waltz. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 Every guest had to appear in a costume appropriate to the period of English history between 1740 and 1750; but, with the exception of the minuet, the dances were modern. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign I walked my first minuet with him: I wouldn’t tell you the year, child, for worlds; but it was soon after his famous encounter with Colonel Villiers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV This triumph of a previous century, after tolling twelve, rambled off with a music-box accompaniment into the quaint old minuet attributed to Louis XIII. The Pines of Lory And not contented with plenty for the present, they carried away my gemmy worked silk garters, and half a dozen new minuets I had just got, to serve, I suppose, as provision for the winter. Threads of Grey and Gold As Monsieur Humbog does not intend for the future teaching abroad after 4 o'clock, he, at the request of his scholars, has opened an academy for young ladies of fashion to practise minuets and cotillions. Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc May the old parlors, where the besilked and bepowdered gentry of the province used to dance the minuet before the change of things, not be given over to baser uses than they have already served. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Milton, quotation from Paradise Lost, 49. minuet, 75; account of, and examples, 78. Music: An Art and a Language To and fro, and up and down beneath their scraggy gum-tree, the two great cranes footed it in a sort of grotesque minuet. Finn The Wolfhound Frivolity enveloped the company as with a silken veil, and yet everything moved as politely and as sedately as a minuet. Skipper Worse She could curtsey with fine grace and dance the stately minuet; and her sprightly conversation was the amazement of those visitors who have recorded their impressions of Quebec. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Before the splashing fountain supported by little naked Loves in marble––flanked by balustrades and bordered by screens of myriad crystalline glass drops––a cool white pavement invited the gay minuet. Orphans of the Storm Harry exerted himself here with much better success than he had lately done in the minuet. The History of Sandford and Merton Nightcaps, dickeys and drawers danced the minuet; stockings, skirts, collars, handkerchiefs waltzed thicker and thicker around the sleeping girl. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland He has attended balls and routs, danced minuets, and gossiped over tiny cups of China tea. The Venetian School of Painting They ogle the ladies through their quizzing glasses, wear high-heeled slippers, and diddle along on their toes like a French dancing-master teaching his pupils the minuet. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance It is the quietest thing out,—almost as grave as a minuet. Is He Popenjoy? In the meantime, Master Compton went up to Harry with the same hypocritical civility, and in Miss Simmons' name invited him to dance a minuet. The History of Sandford and Merton I must then forgive his ignorance of the minuet and quadrilles. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Berlioz's "Tristia" given in New York City, by Theodore Thomas; also Rameau's gavotte, tambourine, and minuet, from the opera "Castor and Pollux." Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Yes, massa, I can play a jig, quickstep, minuet, and reel. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance It had been represented to him that this odious romp had been no more than a minuet; but he did not bear in mind that his wife had been no party to that misrepresentation. Is He Popenjoy? Sliding and gliding with minuet pace, Piroueting and setting with infinite grace. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements Every one feels quite sure that his manners will be irreproachable, that he can speak French, and dance the minuet and quadrilles. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Fortune was kind, for he told it to the soft accompaniment of wine glasses ringing, and the slow music of the stately minuet. A Breath of Prairie and other stories “De ladies and genmen will please choose pardners for de minuet,” said Brutus. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance The minuet is a stately, beautiful old dance that is sometimes introduced, enabling both old and young to join in its slow and gracious measure. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The Assembly Close received the fair— Order and elegance presided there— Each gay Right Honourable had her place, To walk a minuet with becoming grace. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland Do you think I would hazard my daughter's innocence and reputation, for the sake of seeing her dance a good minuet? Practical Education, Volume II Univ. “fishes”; a = able to dance a minuet; b = certain that he is well fitted out; c = contemptible; d = having 3 rows of teeth; e = heavy; h = kind to children; k = sharks. Symbolic Logic After the minuet came the reel and quickstep, danced with grace and due decorum. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Oddly enough they were talking of the minuet, and Kenneth rose to illustrate a step and bow that he had seen used in England. The Roof Tree That wise Mr. Adams is in Paris with our dear Mr. Franklin——" "Who plays chess with French beauties and writes them skits and bagatelles, and, no doubt dances the grave minuet with them. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It began like a minuet and ended something like the haymakers. The Cuckoo Clock By the way, will you be my partner in the minuet? A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School At half past four the dancing-master, Mr. Deneyer, taught him the minuet. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance An occasional Pas seul round the minuet of his companions, rather heightened the effect. Say and Seal, Volume I There were several children, and they danced the minuet, to the great admiration of the grown people. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The racks were on, and the knives and forks had begun their time-honoured minuet within their funny little fences. A Bookful of Girls You know we are to open the proceedings by dancing the old-fashioned minuet," continued Mary Bateman; "on the lawn, of course, with the colored lamps lighting us up. A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School The spacious halls of the mansions afforded ample room for a large company and frequently scores of guests would be present to take part in the stately minuet or the gay Virginia reel. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion A stately measure was being performed, which might have been a gavotte or minuet or pavane for anything he could say; all he knew was that the figures were quite unfamiliar to him. In Brief Authority She was smiling and humming a gay little minuet, as she straightened table mats and arranged forks and knives in exactly the proper relation to each other and the teaspoons. The Comings of Cousin Ann On this occasion the minuet was danced by the younger guests dressed in Louis XIV. costumes. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century They sat round and applauded all the girls, who danced the minuet with becoming grace and looked very pretty as they glided about on the lamp-lit lawn. A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School About seven the ladies and gentlemen begun to dance in the ball room, first minuets one round; second giggs; third reels; and last of all country dances; tho' they struck several marches occasionally. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion I will be quiet as a lamb, though I am so happy I could dance a minuet with Satan and not tire. A Romantic Young Lady His friends he greets with careful etiquette, Permits his well-poised tail-tip to vibrate, Then treads with them the solemn minuet That antique custom and good form dictate. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 The minuet, by the way, is frequently played too fast. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Unto this had come the handsome legs of young Counsellor Henley, who, in his dancing days, stepped minuets to the enthusiastic admiration of the belles of Bath. A Book About Lawyers We learnt the minuet de la cour, reels and country dances. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville The ladies float through most of it, holding their arms on high as in the days of the old French minuet, but the men perform many more elaborate steps to a rattling time and tune. Through Finland in Carts Henry Esmond gave his hand in a stately minuet to Diana of the Crossways. The World I Live In She had now to complete the entire minuet, that is to say, the melody only. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. They then went into the hall and danced a few minuets. A Book About Lawyers He showed a taste for music, and could scrape a minuet on the fiddle at six years of age. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. The ball was opened by four sets of minuets, which were danced with much grace. A Sailor of King George At first only Polonaises, minuets, and quadrilles were danced, but as the guests became more excited, they ventured upon Mazurkas and Cracoviennes. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I then wrote four bars of a minuet, and said, 'What a stupid fellow I am, I have begun a minuet, and cannot finish the first part of it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. After a minuet had been paced to the gentle music of the lute and clavichord, a schottische succeeded to the martial skirl of the pipes. Border Ghost Stories From her slightly elevated position, she could, without rising, overlook the floor, and watched with quiet pleasure the dancers, among them the kingly figure of the Commander-in-Chief, who led a Fredericksburg matron through a minuet. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Angela's mother advances in a minuet step, to soft music, like Goldsmith's bear, and is absolutely enveloped in flames—none but a salamander, or Messrs. Shadrach and company can enact the part with safety. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 Gin you will play me a spring on the pipes I’ll maybe can dance you the fling, but of French minuets I have small skill.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The minuet in the quartet is also pleasing enough, particularly from the place I have marked. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. But who shall say the dear little wag has no vocation because his small feather-soul is expressed by a minuet instead of an anthem? The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Once, even, she had danced the very same minuet with Nick, the whole ballroom looking on and applauding. Antony Gray,—Gardener Just then her young squire came up and she gave him her hand for a minuet, excusing herself to the Governor as graciously as possible. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution And you, cousin Adrian, you will have to take me through pavanne and gavotte and minuet; and I shall be proud of my northern cavalier. The Light of Scarthey I have tried her in every imaginable way; among others it occurred to me to place a very simple minuet before her, to see whether she could make a variation upon it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. The water under the sterns of the Battleships was convulsed by whirling vortices as the great steel-shod bulks turned cautiously towards the entrance, like partners revolving in some solemn gigantic minuet. The Long Trick As the stoutest and oldest dowager of the lot he had obliged her to dance a minuet with him, the 15 terrified coachman, postilion, and solitary male passenger covered by his companions’ pistols the while. Antony Gray,—Gardener The orchestra began to fill the room with the strains of the minuet. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution Paquita diminished her angle of aversion, and then Sir Chim, advancing quite close to the division, began what appeared to be a recollection of a minuet. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. He entered with a sort of dancing measure, playing an old minuet as he did so. Girls of the Forest “I’m sadly out of practice,” she said, “but I can play a tinkling minuet and you may dance to it.” Patty's Success In stately measure the graceful minuet would open the ball. In Ancient Albemarle "I hesitate to condemn a young lady to a prison seat, when the stately minuet sends a summons," he said as he led her to a chair a little to one side of the balcony. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution He had the honour of being selected to dance a minuet with the most graceful of all dancers, Mrs. Garrick, at the Stratford Jubilee. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Schwanthaler, alone, approached her partner, with the rosy, laughing face of a plump little fairy, and taking her skirt in her two fingers as if to suggest a minuet. Tartarin On The Alps “Can you do a minuet?” asked the old lady, after Patty had finished another dance, a gay little Spanish fandango. Patty's Success So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The old custom of opening a ball with a minuet is still practised here, and the Chilians dance it remarkably well. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 He loved to hear her talk of Charleston Bay and the Berkshire Hills, and of the days when she danced the minuet on Cambridge Green. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Airy music arose, and the officials and their wives and guests were going through the form of the old court minuet. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Later, it was an old court dance, stately and decorous as the minuet. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Bless her! why, she wears a cap, Grandma does and takes a nap Every single day: and yet Grandma danced the minuet—long ago. Graded Memory Selections One might have thought he had engaged to dance the minuet. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Then appeared Medicine and Quackery, and were received with loud laughter: they danced a minuet, to which Death clinked the music with a purse of gold. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom The music of Mozart's Don Giovanni minuet has been heard in a thousand halls of state and at the festivals of many lands. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk I think no gentleman in New York can move a minuet with Walter Butler's grace. The Reckoning Brave but modest, grandly shy; She would like to have us try Just to feel like those who met In the graceful minuet—long ago. Graded Memory Selections Why, she wears a cap, Grandma, does, and takes a nap, Every single day, and yet, Grandma danced a minuet, Long ago. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk In the minuet and march on the present program the melodic ideas are the main thing. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Stately dames and grand gentlemen, in powder and ball dress, in ruffles and periwigs, had paced its weird corridors, or danced the slow minuet in its great salon. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 It must have been absurd enough to see them capering about, and dancing minuets and gavottes in blanket coats and moccasins. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Mr. Acres, you were praising Miss Melville's manner of dancing a minuet—hey? The Rivals A Comedy What if all of us should try Just to feel like those who met In the graceful minuet, Long ago? Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk The minuet proper, in the first selection, is a simply expressive folk-song throughout its first period. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Olivier the Page shows pretty Lorezza the minuets of the ladies at court, and she dances in her simple country-fashion, until Olivier seizes her and they dance and sing together. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Nothing then is more recommendable than for those who are naturally inclined to this defect, to endeavor the avoiding it by a particular attention to this capital instruction in learning the minuet. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Modern minuets are echoes of the classical period. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players We had two fiddles and I had the honor to open the diversion of the evening in a minuet with Miss Soley. Customs and Fashions in Old New England This occurs always in the trios, and in the second period of the minuet in D. The next selection is the beginning of the beautiful closing movement of the Sonata, opus 90. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations They advance, recede, turn, return, and go through a variety of figures like dancers in the quadrille or the minuet. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent It will easily then be granted that there is no such thing as learning a minuet, or indeed any dance merely by book. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing At the same time, however, it is modern in the brilliant ornamentation introduced in the middle part of the composition which in a minuet is called the trio. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players The burdened trellises of Richard Strauss may feel the frost long before the slender ivy of Boccherini's minuet. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The minuet in D, from the very strong Sonata in D major, opus 10, affords very strong contrasts before we pass beyond the minuet proper. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Afterward grandmamma played on the spinet and they danced several pretty simple figures, ending with the minuet. A Little Girl in Old Boston On the contrary, nothing is more disgustful than that initial step of the minuet, when auckwardly executed. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing The minuet is one of the very few of the older dance forms which have not become obsolete. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players A composer of a genial gaiety, one who has written a good minuet and an "Evening Song" that is not morose, is Benjamin Lincoln Whelpley, who was born at Eastport, Me., Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It goes like a scherzo, and when it in turn has been completed the main minuet returns with most agreeable effect. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations One of the prettiest things afterward was the minuet danced by the four little girls, and after that two or three cotillions were formed. A Little Girl in Old Boston The truth of this will be easily granted, by numbers who have felt the pleasure of seeing a minuet gracefully executed by a couple who understood this dance perfectly. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing This was followed by a repetition of the first minuet. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Burke devoured Bolingbroke, and when he took up his pen, wrote with the same magnificent, stately minuet step. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The finale, in the tempo of a minuet, is very pleasing indeed. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The musicians struck up a slow stately dance, and the King, taking the Queen by the hand, advanced to the middle of the circle and with her stepped a minuet. The Cat in Grandfather's House He himself danced the minuet to its utmost perfection. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing In the Paderewski minuet the stately, ceremonious character of this dance is preserved together with its old fashioned, naïve grace and charm. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players From hidden recesses, strains of music filled the room with tinkling passages of sensuous, but illusive, harmony; a dream of ardor, masked in the daintiness of a minuet. Under the Rose "When I was in New York—in the asylum; he's the one that danced the minuet with the Marchioness; I told you about it years ago." Flamsted quarries It came from the supreme magnificence of an aurora of moving light, dancing and curtseying with ghostly grace, as though stepping the measure of a heavenly minuet. The Heart of Unaga Among the many reasons for this dance of the minuet having become general, is the possibility of dancing it to so many different airs, though the steps are invariable. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Such is the picture that can be conjured up in imagination while playing the Paderewski minuet. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players He, the prince of wits, the ornament of ball rooms, the star of the minuet and reel, is suddenly quite dumb, and seems to seek for a subject to discourse upon in surrounding objects. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 French dancing masters, I suppose, come to teach the Court lads minuets; and are they to keep English gentlemen waiting outside because, forsooth, they have engaged the public room? The King's Esquires The Jewel of France The ghosts of the aurora no longer trod their measure of stately minuet. The Heart of Unaga If one tune does not please a performer, he may call for another; the minuet still remaining unalterable. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing After a brilliant overture, closing, like that to "Saul," with a minuet movement, the scene opens before the prison in Gaza, with Samson blind and in chains. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers "I do not like politics," Hoffland continued; "they weary me, and I would much rather talk of balls.—What a funny figure Sir Asinus will cut with that little creature—in reel or minuet!" The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 What do you like?—riding, hunting, a quiet minuet on the terrace, eh? The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Besides the Irish jig, which they can dance with a most luxuriant expression, minuets and country-dances are taught; and I even heard some talk of cotillions coming in. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 The old, familiar objects grew grotesquely large and hazy; the deep shadows in the corners multiplied, and began to dance a solemn minuet, advancing, retreating; advancing, retreating.... 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands One, who recognized Judith, swept his aside with a gesture appropriate to a minuet. The Long Roll Methinks the Muses and the Graces have become civilized, and assembled here to dance the minuet. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 It is indispensable for a lady of quality, and I must also complete my knowledge of the minuet and of music. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I must admit that if my aunt played the minuet rather quickly, she executed the andante in a very delicate style, and the scherzo and the finale were both dashed off in a spirited way. French and Oriental Love in a Harem In the middle of all this there was a sudden stop, and a Snail, stepping forward, offered to dance a minuet. The Butterfly's Ball The Grasshopper's Feast Soothed by the grateful influences of barbecued meats and draughts of rum and sugar, Lawrence led Miss Culpeper through the minuet. Second Book of Tales In vain did Sir Asinus dance minuets without number, execute bows beyond example—the little maiden obstinately persisted in bestowing her smiles on her companion, Bathurst. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Then the ball was supposed to commence, and was by general desire opened with a minuet by Miss Niphet and Lord Curryfin. Gryll Grange But they dance in the late dusk a minuet again. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 The minuet being voted slow, a country-dance quickly succeeded it. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley Then, to show that we were civilised beings, O’Driscoll and I rose to our feet, and each offering a hand to a young lady, we commenced a minuet to the air which was being played. Hurricane Hurry She smiled and ogled, as if about to dance a minuet. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Ashatea sometimes joined us, and moved about very gracefully, performing figures of her own invention, which I have since discovered greatly resemble those of the minuet of Europe. Afar in the Forest The Chamberlain laughed, but still betrayed a little confusion: Mrs. Petullo wondered at the anger of his eyes, and a moment later launched upon an abstracted minuet with Montaiglon. Doom Castle Mozart, when but four years old, played the clavichord and composed minuets and other pieces still extant. Pushing to the Front The hedges are shaped into peacocks, and not unfrequently into ladies and gentlemen dancing a minuet. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Springing to his feet, he swept her an elaborate curtsey, holding out his coat as if it were the ball-gown of some stately dame in a minuet. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor I’ll try over the step of that new minuet while you are gone.” All's Well Alice's Victory He changed to the tune of a minuet, then essayed at a melody more sweet and haunting than them all, but broken ere its finish. Doom Castle How like a well-kept garden is your soul, With bergomask and solemn minuet! Silverpoints He made friends with the custom-house officer, showed him his harpsichord, played him a minuet on his little fiddle, and the thing was done,—"Pass—free of duty." Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians “I am the Princess of Saxe-Royale,” she said to him, with a benignant smile; “and you have got through that minuet very fairly.” The Nürnberg Stove But there was no chance during the minuet for mademoiselle's promised confidence, and as the evening went on I began to think there would be none at all. The Rose of Old St. Louis Upon my soul, I haven't danced since Lady Mary left, unless you call it so that foolish minuet. Doom Castle We had two fiddles, & I had the honor to open the diversion of the evening in a minuet with miss Soley.—Here follows a list of the company as we form'd for country dancing. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Slow minuets or lively tarantellas were danced, according to the fashion of the moment, and had the virtue of teaching stately dignity as well as poetry of motion. For the Sake of the School There were two minuets to take in all the party. A Little Girl in Old Salem "Is this a minuet?" came the laughing voice of my mother from the door. The Tory Maid She could ride, shoot, swim, run, fence, much better than she could dance the old courtly minuet, or the new and popular waltz, just beginning to make its appearance. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo In the evening young Mr. Waters13 hearing of my assembly, put 7 his flute in his pocket and played several minuets and other tunes, to which we danced mighty cleverly. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 The "curtsey"—or "courtesy"—is a feature of the minuet, and revived with the old-fashioned dance. Etiquette It didn't matter so much in the minuet. A Little Girl in Old Salem In the evening, according to custom, she dances a minuet with her bridegroom, but whispers a friend that she would have performed better had she danced with her brother. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) In its best days this was a stately and dignified performance, comparable to the old-fashioned courtly minuet. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula After viewing the work we recollected the room we sat down in was Libberty Assembly Hall, otherwise called factory hall, so Miss Gridley & I did ourselves the Honour of dancing a minuet in it. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 In the minuets Haydn is playful, Mozart is occasionally tender and arch; Beethoven alone is vigorous and humoristic in the modern sense. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present He did something more than dance minuets, for her sake he essayed quadrilles. A Little Girl in Old Salem The critic of style is not the dancing-master, declaiming on the deep ineffable things that lie in a minuet. Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay Boccherini's adagios and minuets are deliciously fresh; only the finales seem to me a trifle antiquated. The Child of Pleasure In the letters to Mr Graham, the prologue to Mr Wood, and the epistles to Clarinda, he is dancing minuets with hob-nailed shoes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" "George Foster, the fellow who danced the minuet so well in our show; and Dr. Edward Watkins is coming out with Tom and Della." Ethel Morton's Holidays I remember dancing a minuet with him at Versailles seventy years ago.' Henrietta Temple A Love Story And I will play a minuet on your new piano," said Miss Laura, "and teach the girls beforehand how to dance it. The Colonel's Dream It was used by Beethoven as the third movement of the sonata instead of the more limited minuet, but is also often found as an independent piece. Music Notation and Terminology What if all of us should try just to feel Like those who met in the stately minuet, long ago. Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two "Mother, this is George Foster," said Helen, welcoming a tall boy who was not a member of the U. S. C. but who had helped at the Club entertainment by taking part in the minuet. Ethel Morton's Holidays The practice was so common in certain of the older dances, particularly in the minuet, that this design is also known as the Minuet Form. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition And the dance on which Germany enters is no stately minuet with something of tragic dignity in it. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers A minuet or scherzo, often with a trio added, in which case the part preceding the trio is repeated after the trio is played. Music Notation and Terminology At ninety-six she danced a minuet with the King of Prussia, and requested that worthy not to introduce her as "the woman astronomer, because, you know, I was only the assistant of my brother!" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Some of the dances were quite stately, like the minuet, others were boisterous romps, in which the girls were kissed, embraced and whirled around giddily by their partners. The Age of the Reformation No pen of memory can describe the scene, nor picture in the gallant company, resplendent in coloring, now moving back and forth in the evolutions of the minuet. My Lady of Doubt Ten choristers and dancers, indiscriminately termed Siexes, appear before the altar clad in the costume of Seventeenth-Century pages, and reverently and with great earnestness sing and dance an old-time minuet, with castanet accompaniment, of course. Yule-Tide in Many Lands The word trio is also applied to the middle section of minuets, scherzas, marches, etc., the term originating in the old usage of writing this part for three instruments only. Music Notation and Terminology The Minister established himself in an old mansion in Whitehall Garden where belles and beaux had danced the stately minuet. The War After the War Then they rose on their hind legs and hopped slowly about in all the dignity of a minuet. Ways of Wood Folk There was a scent of old-time perfume in the air, and, as Duane adjusted his mask and drew near, he saw that sets were already forming for the minuet. The Danger Mark The final figure of this fete should be a huge minuet, with the rose-dancers in the center of the sward, the other dancers joining in. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The sarabande and courante are likewise interesting as the prototypes of the second movement, and the bourée, minuet, etc., for their connection with the third movement. Music Notation and Terminology They began with a series of minuets, in which, of course, only one couple danced at a time, the most distinguished opening the ball. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Last night she danced some of the new dances, and her tango is as stately as a minuet. Contrary Mary Oh, dear," said Geraldine in pretty distress, "and I let you beguile me when I'm dying to do this minuet. The Danger Mark They dance a minuet, and retire to left. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People But the stately minuet still reigned supreme; and every regular ball commenced with it. Memoir of Jane Austen I can see her now, my dear, as she stood up for a minuet with him. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Following, Leila went to the piano, and Porter and Mary gave a minuet. Contrary Mary As a matter of fact," said Duane, "I don't remember very well how to dance a minuet. The Danger Mark After a figure or two, the tempo of the music should change, and the dancers, headed by those who have done the rose minuet, should march off the field into the background. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The minuet expired with the last century: but long after it had ceased to be danced publicly it was taught to boys and girls, in order to give them a graceful carriage. Memoir of Jane Austen I fancied myself moving through the minuet de la cour, whose stately paces scarcely made the silken rosebuds rustle. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances I was to dance the first minuet, and the first country dance, with that beautiful creature, Miss Rose Cox. The House by the Church-Yard The forecast as to my lady had its fulfilment while yet the spinetter was striking out the final chords of the minuet. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady They dance a minuet, and retire to left. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People He could see her wealth of copper-hued hair blown by the western wind; he could picture her joining in Spring's minuet of swaying rose-bushes. The Parts Men Play A tendency toward exaggeration, which is patent among modern conductors, is threatening to rob the symphonic minuet of the vivacity which gave it its place in the scheme of the symphony. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art The introduction of the minuet is one of the most striking portions. Great Violinists And Pianists The spinet in the ball-room alcove was tinkling out the overture to a minuet, and she laid the tips of her dainty fingers on the colonel's arm. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Apart from his dramatic compositions, Weber is known for his many beautiful overtures and symphonies for the orchestra, and his various works for the piano, from sonatas to waltzes and minuets. The Great German Composers It was a necessity that a gentleman should dance, and dance well, and the stately minuet required accuracy, grace, and dignity. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars With the change there came an increase in speed, but it ought to be remembered that the symphonic minuet was quicker than the dance of the same name. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art The scene of the minuet in the opera is a vision of rural loveliness and repose, whispering of flowers, fields, and happy flying hours. Great Violinists And Pianists Printed for Charles and Samuel Thompson, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, where may be had the yearly dances and minuets. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. His works number eight hundred, comprising cantatas, symphonies, oratorios, masses, concertos, trios, sonatas, quartets, minuets, etc., and also twenty-two operas, eight German and fourteen Italian. The Great German Composers The second movement is a minuet, with variations; it certainly has a beginning, but seems endless. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development The music of the minuet is in 3-4 time, and of stately movement. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Meantime the dogs performed a solemn minuet around her ladyship's knees. The Half-Hearted In our own day musical themes are marked by forms originally dance times, as waltz time, gavotte time, minuet time, etc. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. Forever have they gone, and the times when over waxed floors thy sons and daughters gracefully performed the minuet. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is He argues with Brummel about the tying of a cravat, with Nash about a minuet, the proper composition of a sauce is the subject of a weighty dialogue with the great Vatel. Fifth Avenue When the corn was all built into the great arishmows that stood bowing towards each other like the giant dancers in some stately minuet, he was there to watch. Secret Bread Old minuets often began on the first beat. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Our dancing master, besides the minuet and quadrilles, teaches us to walk and courtesy gracefully. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He steps out joyfully beneath the wide-spread minuet of twinkling stars. Idolatry A Romance "I am the Princess of Saxe-Royal," she said to him, with a benignant smile; "and you have got through that minuet very fairly." Famous Stories Every Child Should Know At present a minuet was being danced, and very pretty it was; she could not help noticing how cleverly Miss Burgoyne managed her train. Prince Fortunatus Minuet.— generally a little slower than moderato, although in later minuets the tempo became allegretto. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University I can already play several minuets and cotillons from the notes, and will soon learn a polonaise. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is now some quarter century since people took to building Queen Anne cottages, and gentlemen at costume parties to treading minuets in small clothes and perukes, with ladies in high-cushioned hair and farthingales. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The particles have plenty of room to play about each other, to execute mazy dances and minuets with vastly more space than substance. Among the Forces Never shall I forget," said old Lady Storms, "seeing the pretty thing look after him when he bowed and left her after they had danced a minuet together. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality In his first sonatas Beethoven added a movement, generally a minuet, to this scheme; but returned to the three-movement structure later. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University To play this music with just the right spirit, you must put yourself en rapport with the epoch in which it was written—the era of crinoline, powdered wigs, snuffboxes and mincing minuets. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers We possess the means of verifying somewhat as to the nature of the minuet; but after what fashion did our revered grandfather do his rigadoon and his gavot? The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales She would be obliged to sleep in corsets and high-heeled shoes; everybody would be going through the figures of a stately minuet all day long. Bressant And they follow her like slaves," added Tantillion, in an ecstacy, "and stand about with their mouths open to stare at her swimming though her minuets with bowing worshippers, and oh! His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The first movement consisted of an allemande; then came a courante; then a minuet; then a sarabande; and last of all a gigue; all in the same key. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University And now some of the younger people had made bold to try this minuet, and Macleod led his partner up to the head of the improvised ball-room, and the slow and graceful music began. Macleod of Dare It began like a minuet and ended something like the hay-makers. The Cuckoo Clock "It makes one think of high-waisted dresses, and minuets and things like that." The S. W. F. Club She could indeed still dance a minuet, but she was not sure she could get on in the "Boston dip." The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin Sometimes the minuet and sarabande changed places, just as in modern times do the andante and scherzo. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University He attempted once to walk a minuet with me, and I really thought he was a bear accidentally stumbled into coat and slippers. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution In spite of Puritanical training, in spite of the thunder-bolts of colonial preachers, the tide of public opinion could not be stayed, and the girls would learn the waltz and the prim minuet. Woman's Life in Colonial Days Here Mozart, drawing some paper from his pocket, in a few minutes composed a minuet, which with a letter he gave to the distressed man, desiring him to take it to his publisher. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection We see how the magician breaks one egg after another and takes out of each egg a little fairy and puts one after another on his hand where they begin to dance a minuet. The Photoplay A Psychological Study Of the French phrases, which the affected lady throws into her conversation, some have been since naturalized, as good graces, minuet, chagrin, grimace, ridicule, and others. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 Silent hours In ghostly pantomime on tip-toe tripped The stately minuet of the passing years, Until the horologe of Time struck One. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems He originated, invented the Scherzo, developing it from the simple minuet of the earlier composers. Beethoven They tell me she walks through mathematics like a young duchess through the minuet. A Hoosier Chronicle Nor is there any doubt that the young Napoleon led his minuets beneath the stiff girandoles of the formal dancing-room. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series And what new minuets have you brought over with you? their minuets are to a miracle! and our Sicilian jiggs are so dull and sad to them! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 With this wonderful child music was a divine gift, for his first work, a minuet and trio for piano, was written in his fifth year. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers They had essayed it chiefly in the minuet, but succeeded only in producing something stately, in which the element of fun or humor, to modern ways of thinking is hardly appreciable. Beethoven Thus fortified, they approached the window fearfully, holding hands and stepping high, like a couple in a minuet. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood I should think two small Zeppelins could have danced a minuet under its dome. Living Alone They danced a minuet and a jig; but only Mlle. de Nantes danced in the latter. The Story of Versailles The gallant Frenchmen seized the instruments from the band and themselves played the music of the minuet "A Successful Campaign" for a couple representing so much beauty and valor. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Previous to the introduction of quadrilles and country dances or contredanses, the inaptitude of nine-tenths of mankind for dancing was still more eminently demonstrated in the murders of the minuet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Louis goes through minuet with extreme satisfaction to himself. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 The candles burned clear, strains of the minuet de la cour rose and fell in the ample room, the member from Albemarle and Mr. Pincornet stepped, bent, and postured with the gravity of Indian sachems. Lewis Rand "We are going to the ball together, you and I. Hasten, or we shall not be in time for the minuet." Audrey A rarely-beautiful girl is dancing the minuet, surrounded by a group of her friends, beautiful blonde girls and a fair-haired young man. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 The hills, however, were little only because the stretch was so vast; it was really a broad plafond upon which they had solemnly entered to dance a minuet with the playful shadows of the clouds. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 And he gets up, pulls himself together, and invites her to come and dance a minuet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 The music was played rather slowly, to give Aunt Ruth time to get about, and the result was almost the stately effect of a minuet. The Twenty-Fourth of June Two couples were walking a minuet; when they were joined by this dazzling third, the ladies bridled, bit their lips, and shot Parthian glances. Audrey |
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