Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance

Author:   Joseph Fort (King's College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009515597


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance


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Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book explores the public dance culture of Vienna in the late eighteenth century as an essential context in which to understand minuet composition from this period, focusing on the music of Haydn, and restores the array of kinaesthetic associations and expectations that eighteenth-century audiences brought to the listening experience through their knowledge of the dance. It reconstructs the choreography of the minuet as it was performed in the Viennese dance halls and examines the repertoire of minuets composed specifically for dancing, bringing new perspectives to the minuet genre. This recovered bodily knowledge allows the author to put forward an analytical method of 'somatic enquiry' and apply it to Haydn's symphonic minuets from the 1790s, revealing previously hidden features in this music that come to light when listening with an understanding of the dance.

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Author:   Joseph Fort (King's College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.611kg
ISBN:  

9781009515597


ISBN 10:   1009515594
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Joseph Fort is College Organist and Director of the Chapel Choir, and Senior Lecturer in Music at King's College London. He took up this post in 2015, upon completion of his Ph.D. in Music Theory at Harvard University.

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