Stately court dance

Usage examples of minuet.

The formal music for the branle and galliard, the charconne and allemande and pavane and the Spanish minuet blew pattering like tinfoil through the peach trees, suffocated by the drawling French of English thoraxes and the polite, beautiful French of the most highly cultured courtiers in the world.

The high mountains still wore their invisibility masks, but the lower mountains, not too proud to show themselves to motoring mortals, grouped as graciously together as if they were lovely ladies and gay knights, turned to stone just when they had assembled to tread a minuet.

They were performing a sort of minuet, graceful beyond words, to an accompaniment from the theremins in the manner of Mozart.

Little Miss Unwin is learning the gavotte, the cachuca and the minuet but, despite the romantic purpose of such dances, seems wholly ignorant of the male sex.

Byles Gridley looked on gravely, thinking of the minuets and the gavots of his younger days.

He stood chuckling and rubbing his hands, and scarcely hearing a word the parson said, notwithstanding that the latter was discoursing most authentically on the ancient and stately dance at the Paon, or Peacock, from which he conceived the minuet to be derived.

I see that you were amused at the Carnival and that you were four times at the masked ball, where there were two hundred women, and that you danced minuets and quadrilles to the great astonishment of the ambassador Foscarini who told everyone that you were sixty years old, although in reality you have not yet reached your sixtieth year.

In his cantatas he shows himself at once captivating and caressing, and in his minuets he is delightful and full of humour.

By degrees I told her of the events of her childhood, and how she enchanted all Venice by the grace with which she danced the minuet.

Like dancers in a minuet the two moved forward, groping slowly for the treacherous footholds, and the children shrank back against the cliff.

I left her alone for a moment after supper, and went to the box, where I expected to find Madame Pichona, but it was occupied by maskers, who were unknown to me, so I rejoined my partner, and we went on dancing the minuets and quadrilles till the fandango was announced.

The minuets came to an end, and Dupre announced the quadrilles, and I was glad to see the Chevalier Ville-Follet dancing with the Corticelli.

When the minuets stopped the square dances began, and refreshments were liberally handed round.

The minuets over, the square dances began, and I thought I was dreaming when I saw Armelline and the Florentine taking their places.

In the spring of 1883 he began to compose music, and in 1885 we published together an album of minuets, gavottes, and fugues.