Menuet v české lidové hudbě: analýza a hudební typ.

The long-term research of the characteristics of Czech folk dance melodies reveald that the songs and instrumental melodies from the collections from the 19th and 20th centuries be divided into several distinct musical groups. Besides the already described types of triple meter, "round and round", „ländler", „mazurka" or polonaise-like rytmical.melodical structures there is also a distinctive musical type, minet or folk minuet. The present study aims to confirm the subjectively perceived musical quality of Czech minets through the method of computer structural analysis and to present them in the context of so far published historical researches and musicological analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]