Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance

Joseph Fort (King's College London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 October 2025

Dance; Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: Music in Context

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.

By: Joseph Fort (King's College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 611g
ISBN: 9781009515597
ISBN 10: 1009515594
Series: Music in Context
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 02 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures; List of tables; List of musical examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The dance culture of late-eighteenth-century Vienna; 2. The choreography of the Viennese minuet as a group dance; 3. The music of the Viennese minuet; 4. A somatic enquiry into the minuet; 5. Somatic analysis of the concert minuets; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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.