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US
/mɪnˌjuˈɛt/
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[ UK /mˌɪnjuːˈɛt/ ]
[ UK /mˌɪnjuːˈɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
- a stately court dance in the 17th century
How To Use minuet In A Sentence
- Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance.
- A student of Shakspere, I had learned something of every dance alluded to in his plays, and hence partially understood several of those I now saw -- the minuet, the pavin, the hey, the coranto, the lavolta. Lilith, a romance
- There had been some flaccid rubatos in the preceding Allegro Assai and there were some underplayed syncopations in the Minuet and Trio but the cheer it received was well earned.
- At that moment, the music stopped and began anew just as quickly; a waltzing minuet.
- And as the minuet derives its merit from an observation of the most agreeable steps, well chosen in nature and well combined by art, there is no inconsistence in avering that art may, in this, as in many other objects of imitative skill, essentially assist nature, and place her in the most advantageous point of light. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
- Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
- She began to tremble in fear when her heart's steady pace quickened into a fast-paced minuet, her breath's stable rhythm raced into a sixteenth note, and her feet's adagio tempo sped into a presto.
- Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
- Some later examples introduced more complex techniques, such as canon (Mozart's Symphony no. 40, in G minor), and some treat the reprise of the minuet after the trio with elaborate embellishments.
- Maman had danced a minuet dressed in a Pompadour costume, and she herself had gone as a deviless, with a scarlet-and-black dress and little golden horns in her black hair. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
