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• When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel. Stepping Through History
• We don't do the dainty minuet of the newspaper editorial page.
• And as we know very well that a lady who is skilled in dancing or singing never can perfect herself without a deal of study in private, and that the song or the minuet which is performed with so much graceful ease in the assembly-room has not been acquired without vast labour and perseverance in private; so it is with the dear creatures who are skilled in coquetting. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
• All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet.
• As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style.
• Mozart showed genius even at the age of six, when he began to compose minuets.
• Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
• The minuet, which is marked allegretto, has the spirit and sound of a scherzo and ought to be played like one. Archive 2009-04-01
• A minuet, taken scherzando, is also most original and happy. 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
• Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in.