menuetto

The same writer gives _tempo di menuetto_ as equivalent to _allegretto_, and _tempo di valso_ as equivalent to _allegro moderato_ (which he regards as indicating a more rapid tempo than _allegretto_).

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

Then follows the second menuetto, which many would have called a trio, excepting that it really is a complete little minuet, the leading idea of which is given by the second violins; after this the first menuetto returns.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

The whole concludes with a menuetto, moderate in movement, song-like.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

Out of this profoundly sad, despondent, slow movement grows the tender flower of the delicious menuetto in D major which follows it.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

The first menuetto begins with a melody for clarinets, which is developed into a short form.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

I once asked one of the best-reputed older musicians, a friend and companion of Mendelssohn (whom I have already mentioned apropos of the tempo di menuetto of the eighth symphony),

On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848

Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16 - Quasi menuetto - Trio. wav

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In the menuetto, first violinist Arnaud Sussman played fragments of melody that were repeatedly answered by harsh chords.

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