Formal Functions in Menuets by Johann Sebastian Bach
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2017-11-14
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Neumeyer, David
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The menuet entered into upper-class social dance, ballet, and opera no later than the 1660s, thanks largely to Jean Baptiste Lully. This essay charts formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets by Johann Sebastian Bach, with additional commentary on his contemporaries in Germanophone countries.