menuet

JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be a menuet; I hope it turns out to be a conversation.

CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006 2006

ARLEN SPECTER (R), JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN: It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle menuet.

CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006 2006

And this pas de menuet has two demi-coupés and two pas marchés en pointe.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

And this pas de menuet has two demi-coupés and two pas marchés en pointe.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

Two things are worthy of notice in many pages choked with notes: there is a menuet, the only essay I recall of Chopin's in this graceful, artificial form; and the Larghetto is in 5/4 time -- also a novel rhythm, and not very grateful.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

Unfortunately Quebec had then no Court Journal, so that following generations will have but faint ideas of all the witchery, the stunning head-dresses, the _décolletées_, high-waisted robes of their stately grandmothers, whirled round in the giddy waltz by whiskered, épauletted cavaliers, or else courtesying in the demure _menuet de la cour_.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

Do not forget to bring the variations on Ekart's menuet d'exaude, and also those on Fischer's minuet.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

Prince's dame de compagnie was very kind, I seemed to belong to no one in that great room, where the ladies were sitting in long rows, and the gentlemen parading before them, paying their court to one after another, while the space in the middle was left free for some distinguished pair to dance the menuet de la cour.

Stray Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Do not forget to bring the variations on Ekart's menuet d'exaude, and also those on Fischer's minuet.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1773

In the air 'Non, le plus grand empire' one hardly notices this is a menuet.

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