ABSTRACT
Two genres which, because of the simplicity of their outline, their popularity and their longevity, carried over from a previous era into that under discussion, were the minuet and the rondo, the second of which is the subject of the next chapter. One comes across the enigmatic Siciliana or Siciliano occasionally, but this had long lost sight of its obscure dance—origins, and become a 'style' in the sense of the 'hunting style'. In compound time, most commonly in 6/8, its leisurely tempo and a characteristic lilting rhythm https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315085968/7f3a653e-db33-4d3e-8f43-2cabe44c5f66/content/inline3.tif"/> gave it the character of a slow pastoral jig. It was immortalised by Mozart in his use of it in minor keys, as in the distraught Adagio of the Piano Sonata in F major, K. 280 (189e), 1 the beautiful slow movement of the A major Piano Concerto K. 488 and, above all, the magnificent Rondo in A minor K. 511. 2
