Talk:Minuet

Adapted from 1911 enc.

With an OCR error. 1/8 time would be stupid. Dictionary.com returns "A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France."

the Oxford English Dictionary says "A slow, stately dance, in triple measure, for two dancers; derived from France in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and fashionable throughout the eighteenth." In other words, 3/4 since they didn't specify 3/8 or 3/16.

I thought that a minuet is in 6/8 time, but I haven't changed the entry in that regard. User:Wetman

You're part right - the most familiar type of minuet (at least in classical music) is in the French style - it's slow and sgo fuck a goat in 3/8 or sometimes 6/8 (you sometimes get these at the end of Italian overtures). I'll tweak the article a bit to reflect this. --Camembert

(Afterthought) - actually, I've feeling I've seen minuets by Rameau in 6/8 as well (which means maybe Lully wrote them that way also), but I could be imagining it. --Camembert

I need help

I need info on 'minuets' for my music project. does any one has any useful suggestions of what info i could use? Thanks! please help!

Help for music students

Given that this article is under "musical forms," I'd like to see more information useful to students in music classes who have been assigned the homework of writing a minuet and are wrestling with the form. I.e., |I V||V I| structure, etc. Maybe once I figure out what I'm doing, I'll work on something like that.

Minuet, from Star Trek

Once the Star Trek character has her own article, the paragraph in this article can be shortened to the bare minimum necessary for disambiguation. ShutterBugTrekker 19:41, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Structure

While sort of rewriting this article, I decided to give it a chronological structure, rather than separating history and form as it was before. I'm not sure if this was a wise choice, so comments are welcome, I guess. EldKatt (Talk) 17:54, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Removed reference to Nintendo 64 song

Folks, I have again removed 24.242.31.37's reference to the Nintendo 64's song Minuet of the Forest. This tune was not even a minuet IIRC, was certainly not notable, and does not add any information to the article. Oscar 01:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Original Four?

Does anybody have a source other than this website http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3minuet.htm

That

Originally there were only four Minuets,

1. The Queen's Minuet or Le Minuet de la Reine,
2. Le Minuet de Dauphin,
3. Le Minuet d'Exaudet,
4. Le Minuet de la Cour - (still popular today in certain circles). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vonfraginoff (talk • contribs) 10:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Inline citations

User:Feline Hymnic has requested a discussion on this page of changes recently made to the inline citation style established for this article on 6 March 2009 in this edit. The reason given for altering the established citation style is that several non-conforming citations had recently been added, and now outnumbered the parenthetical inline citations already in place. This is contrary to Wikipedia:Citing sources, which states specifically: "If an article already has citations, adopt the method in use or seek consensus on the talk page before changing it." It says nothing about "votes" accumulated by subsequent non-conforming citations. It appears to me in addition that Feline Hymnic may be confusing inline citations with footnotes. Once again referring to "WP:Citing sources": "Two styles of inline citation are commonly used on Wikipedia: clickable footnotes (<ref> tags, as above) and parenthetical references. The latter would involve adding (Smith 2011, p. 1) in round brackets within the sentence, while the former would include the same citation in a footnote". I submit that there is no justification for changing the established reference style, and my correction should therefore be restored.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 18:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)