Show THE PEACEFUL MINUTE european society returning to ts once popular dance the paris style berliner borsen curier the minute which strauss ie is about to introduce to the partial exclusion of bis his own waltz was the iret first ball bull danced which had bad 1 a really worldwide world wide popularity it is a slow dignified dance an 11 apro production of afie ti time me and P lace 1 of ite its birth it is very old when don juan eaustria dAu went incognito from brussels Brus seli to paris puri 8 nothing he saw during his ilia famous trip excited cited his admiration halfss half so much nuch as the grace with which the beautiful Al margaret argaret of burgundy burgund y danced the minuet 0 other 1 her beaus and titled dandies of the same per period iod also put in writing flattering flat flattering terin 9 allusions to the beauties of this dance nevertheless it is axce exceedingly e d doubtful that the minuet of those times was the original model of the minuet of otto today to day the minuet which very recen recently kiy has appeared in the parisian salons was invented by the french ballet master gallt or rather was wag evolved by him bini from a much older dance for the celebration of t the he marriage of king lauis XVI minuet of the queen is the title which the gallant gardel gave to his IS new dance in honor of marie antoinette the figures ofa of a dance lance of the time of louis XIV were utilized by gardel as the basis of his bis new ini minert neut the old dance I 1 with which every court ball of louis XIV was opened c consisting on mostly therein that the gerit gentleman leman and the lady faced each other move a few steps forward and backward in time with dignified and sonorous music music bowed deeply and return to their ill places a ces this dance lance was called the I 1 B beaule Br raule aule it was succeeded by the tile gavotte in which the tile gent gentleman lemau kissed the tile bouquet of flowers and with a deep bow handed banded it to his partner from this gavotte gardel derived deri vei the minuet the famous dancing ni master aster decourt Pe court introduced an important innovation by changing the tile 8 figure into the Z figure which ie 1 I still danced the minuet is the tile only dance which preserves the courtly dignity of the old regime and therefore has ever been regarded 11 as the most aristocratic of dances the most popular of minuet music musie is from the first finale of Moz arts don juan this music is the model of all other music to which the minuet has bas been danced of late years 10 |