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   MarK

   It was puzzling to me that you described the form but did not say a single word about the history and character, especially in case of Minuet where you could have mentioned at least briefly what kind of dance it was, when and where it originated, how and why it became popular and then eventually ceased being so. As for Rondo, i think that episode B coming back before concluding A is not that typical. The form is often ABACADA or sometimes even ABACADAEA, with the first A repeated, as in one of the earliest examples – Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach’s Third Violin Partita written roughly three full centuries ago.

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   September 25, 2017 4:08 pm
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     tmangan

     Oh, well, I was trying out something else, really. Just trying to get a prospective listener to hear something they hadn’t before in a piece of classical music, a little structure. (I know it worked in one case.) I wasn’t really writing a through essay on the Minuet. btw, no one seems to read long pieces online, so that was another thing: I tried to keep it short.

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     September 26, 2017 11:00 am
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       MarK

       Whatever works is fine, but i still think that content is usually more important than form.

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       October 3, 2017 12:46 pm

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