minuet

A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France.

The music for this dance.

A movement in 3/4 time that is usually the third, but sometimes the second, of a four-movement symphony or string quartet.

A slow and graceful dance, invented, probably in Poitou, France, about the middle of the seventeenth century. Throughout the eighteenth century it was “he most popular of the more stately and ceremonious dances.

Music for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is triple and slow.

A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.

A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.