Page30 #8, Menuets I & II

Selected Duets for Flute, Page 30 Number 8, performed by David Summer. Like the previous duets entitled "Menuet" this is a spelling variation on the word "Minuet". These two minuets are both in the key of C, the second one does not change key to the parallel minor, as the previous pair of minuets did. The prolific Boismortier, the composer of all the duets in this section of the Selected Duets book, wrote often for the flute. He even wrote a flute method book that unfortunately is now lost. There are no repeats taken in this performance, but again the DC to the first minuet is taken, and the metronome setting is quarter note = 120.