9. Historical Examples of the Forms of the Minuet

The chapter discusses various forms of the minuet through European and Nordic sources. It presents the ordinary French court minuet and its practice as well as several other minuet forms. The examples of the Nordic sources containing a remarkable amount of information on the minuet are a Norwegian manuscript from around 1750, dance books by Swedish dancing master Sven Henrik Walcke, Swiss dancing master J.J. Martinet’s dance book from 1797, translated to Danish in 1801, Danish dancing masters Pierre Jean Laurent’s and Jørgen Gad Lund’s dance books from the early nineteenth century, as well as Norwegian dance teacher Janny Isachsen’s dance manual from 1886.