Annotation:Minuet de la Cour

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MINUET DE LA COUR. English, Minuet (3/4 time). E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande" was performed in the last scene, a Masquerade, in The Chapter of Accidents, staged in London in 1784. It subsequently appeared inserted in several London theater productions, often called "The Minuet de la Cour and Gavot."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Forrester (Flute Player's Pocket Companion), ; p. 4. Morrison (Twenty-Four Early American Country Dances, Cotillions & Reels, for the Year 1976), 1976; p. 17. Westrop (120 Country Dances), c. 1860's. Wilson (A Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 17.

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