Enjoy this performance of Minuet in C. It originally appeared in More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204205/More-Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home-2e?affiliate_id=50797
Instruments performed by @CRProductions-connorragas.
About Minuet in C
Frederic Francis Shallowford was twenty years old when he journeyed to Palanthas to further his career in music. There, under the patronage of the Palanthian aristocracy, he wrote the numerous grand operas for which he is famous. His rather individual style of opera known as opera sortis, centered around popular military themes (and elaborate battle scenes) and earned him the honorary title, Knight of Note.
This piece, however, was not written to impress the masses in some grand opera hall. It was written to impress a beautiful Palanthian noblewoman with whom the young musician had fallen in love. At the time, Shallowford had been hired to compose several pieces for string quartet that could be played in the drawing rooms of the nobility and at small social gatherings. Shallowford had hoped to impress the daughter of a nobleman by including her name in the title of his latest work. However, just before he presented his newest composition, entitled Madeline’s Minuet, it was announced that the young woman had just become engaged to a young knight of Solamnia. Hastily, Shallowford changed the title to the first thing he could think of, Minuet in the Key of C.
Music cataloged by Jarrus Locastus, Assistant, Great Library of Palanthas
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