Caffeinated minuet

Here is my minuet and trio in C major. A bit more baroquesque than my usual offerings, except for the speed. When Mozart was 14, and in Italy I believe, he wrote about quick minuets which a bit more livelier than the stately dance he was used to.

Hey Darren,

Gosh you have such clean handwriting! The noteheads are really big!

It's interesting you are having a 8+8+4 in the minuet, and a 8+8+8 in the F major trio. Maybe I will extend the 4 bars sentence in the minuet to 8 bar to for balance, by adding four bars in C major before the ending you presented here. But again this is very enjoyable with its simplicity. My favourite portion is the C minor portion, the middle 8 bars in the minuet. That part is so clever to me.

From bar 7-8 of the trio there's a parallel fifth of F-C to C-G, not sure if you will change it or not since it only happens in a quaver time. I'm ok with parallel octave in this style, but I usually avoid parallel fifth since it's more apparent. 

In b.14 of the trio you miss out the natural sign for the B natural!

Thanks for sharing. This is enjoyable.

Henry

Thank you Henry for listening to my music and for looking closely at the score. I never really thought about my handwriting, I think it's clear so I can read it better at the piano, I tried doing a scruffy short-hand style before but it looked awful.

I like your balancing suggestion, I'll see what extending Minuet B or contracting Trio B does to the feeling of forward momentum. And I wasn't quite sure about the 5ths when I wrote them, the pedal note might count as a third voice, I'm not sure to be honest. In any case going down to e after f and going up as V7b would solve it. Thanks again 🙂

Darren

The revised minuet. I decided to shorten the trio. 

Hey Darren,

I like the shortening of the trio as I feel like it's more balanced now. I also notice in b.28 you change the C to E in LH, so no parallel 5th there!

Henry