How I love this guy!
A baroque minuet: is always, a minuet-trio-decapo
decapo meaning: coming back to the head, to the beginning, providing closure
Macro scheme therefore: A-B-A
Within each part, binary form:
minuet: aa-bb
trio: cc-dd
decapo: a-b
No need to repeat the repetition in the decapo, that would be overkill.
Minuets are fairly slow, majestic. (Think of Louis the XIVth immense girth)
Mozart, the minuet in the classical era: provide a kind of closure within each part! Called a rounded binary:
minuet: aa-ba-ba
trio: cc-dc-dc
decapo: a-b
Mozart left his Requiem unfinished in 1791 when he died.
