Minuets

A minuet is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3/4 time. In music, it describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer musical form called the minuet and trio, and was much used as the third movement in the four-movement classical symphony. Initially, before its adoption in contexts other than social dance, the minuet was usually in binary form, with two repeated sections of usually eight bars each. But the second section eventually expanded, resulting in a kind of ternary form.