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Old Mar 30 2008, 3:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Voce View Post
What do you mean when you say "feel like a minuet?"
What makes a minuet a minuet is the form, not the feeling. I didn't end it with an authentic cadence just because that's the sound I wanted.

Thx lol
I kind of felt like that too.
Wait, let me get this straight

A dance has nothing to do with the style, mood, rhythm or "feeling" of the music, it's the form that makes it....a dance. Umm...yeah, sure. Or...



Main Entry:
min·u·et Listen to the pronunciation of minuet
Pronunciation:
\ˌmin-yə-ˈwet\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French menuet, from obsolete French, tiny, from Old French, from menu small, from Latin minutus
Date:
1672

1 : a slow graceful dance in 3⁄4 time characterized by forward balancing, bowing, and toe pointing 2 : music for or in the rhythm of a minuet



Or it could be that. You didn't write a minuet. No seriously, it isn't a minuet.


Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's talk about the actual music. It's very incoherent, segmented and overall there is no real clarity in form, or any real type of statement. Infact, it sounds like 4 completely different pieces, which would ALMOST be passable if you wrote transitional material, but you didn't. There's no development, there isn't really anything here.
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