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A newcomer question? #1081947 02/01/09 10:58 PM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 27 malaysia T teng wei OP Full Member
OP teng wei Full Member T Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 27 malaysia	Dear All, I'm a true beginner, I've been wandering about this... What is Minuet? May be it's just an identifier name of Bach's composition. Do other composer use the word Minuet too? and Sonata, fugue...?

Re: A newcomer question? #1081948 02/01/09 11:02 PM
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,483 Ohio, USA signa 8000 Post Club Member
signa 8000 Post Club Member Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,483 Ohio, USA	it's a dance name, and therefore it's the music for that particular dance. btw, all those can be looked at Wiki pages, if you do a search online. another thing you can do is to buy a music dictionary (Harvard or Oxford Music Dictionary) which contains all explanations for those terms.

Re: A newcomer question? #1081949 02/02/09 02:07 AM
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Horowitzian 8000 Post Club Member Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 8,453	Minuet refers to a dance, as signa pointed out. It's worth pointing out that these are very often stylized dances in this context and not actually danceable. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons.

Re: A newcomer question? #1081950 02/02/09 02:14 AM
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sotto voce 6000 Post Club Member S Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 6,163 Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA	Wikipedia is good, and Dolmetsch Online has a very comprehensive music dictionary: http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm Steven

Re: A newcomer question? #1081951 02/02/09 06:37 AM
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OP teng wei Full Member T Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 27 malaysia	Thank you all. Really helpful here. Appreciate.

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