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Minuets

Here are entered musical compositions. Works about the minuet as a dance are entered under Minuet (Dance).

This heading is not qualified by medium of performance. For minuets for a specific medium, an additional heading is assigned for the medium of performance.

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• Dance music

• Minuets -- Scores

• Elements of Music and of Fingering the Harpsichord; To Which is Added a Collection of Airs and Lessons for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (Glasgow: Pub. for the author, ca. 1802), by Anne Gunn, contrib. by Joseph Haydn (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Brookes on Modern Dancing, by Laurence De Garmo Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Collection of Ball-Dances Perform'd at Court, by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dick's Quadrille Call-Book, and Ball-Room Prompter (HTML and page images at LOC)
• An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing, by E. Pemberton (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• J.W. Pepper's Universal Dancing Master, Prompter's Call Book and Violinist's Guide, by Lucien O. Carpenter (page images at LOC)
• Le Gratie d'Amore (in Italian; facsimile images from 1602 and 1604 editions), by Cesare Negri (page images with commentary at pbm.com)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Grammar of the Art of Dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, ed. by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe (HTML and page images at LOC)

• For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Essex (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg illustrated HTML
• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (second edition, 1715), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated, by Edward Ferrero (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies, and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries, 1882), ed. by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • 1965 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org

• Le Couvent sur l'Eau (Il Convento Veneziano): Comédie Chorégraphique, sur un Argument de J.L. Vaudoyer, par Alfredo Casella: Fragments Symphoniques pour Orchestre (musical score, with notes in French and Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, c1919), by Alfredo Casella (page images at HathiTrust; page order reversed; US access only)

• The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts (orchestral score; London et al.: Boosey and Hawkes, c1921), by Igor Stravinsky and Nicholas Roerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)

• Singing Games and Dances (New York: Association Press, c1957), ed. by David S. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk Dances of Different Nations (3 volumes in 1; New York: L. H. Chalif, c1926), ed. by Louis H. Chalif (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Second Love Schottisch (sheet music for piano; Washington: J. F. Ellis, c1870), by J. A. Rosenberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leaflets of the Ball Room (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)