On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:44 PM, John Howell wrote:
You mean Ländler? Nothing horrid about Haydn's use in symphonies
in place of minuets (or Richard Rodgers' in "Sound of Music" come
to that).
Ah, the sexual tension in the Landler scene ... you could cut it
with a knife.
Dean
And countless minuets? It was only the single most popular social
and theatrical dance of the 18th century, and remained so until it
was displaced by the Waltz in the 19th. And Mozart, Haydn and
Beethoven wrote them very well indeed.
John
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