On May 8, 2009, at 9:24 AM, David Rastall wrote: > In the mid-Baroque (specifically Lauffensteiner), when you're playing > a "minuet and trio," is it historically accurate to play them at > slightly different tempi, or is that strictly a Classsical-period > thing?
Someone who actually danced the minuet, or played the minuet as dance music, would likely not have changed the tempo, because it messes up the dancing. Not that anyone would be dancing to Lauffensteiner, but they would think of dance movements as dance music. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
