This "Minuet" by Joseph Haydn tortured me for months: MOZART refused to play
it right. When it came to the repeat of bar 3, starting at the count of 3 the
tracking cursor jumped backwards and forwards, and the only notes in the
fourth strand (in bars 15 and 16) sounded a crotchet too early.

I finally cracked it when, after separating strands 3 and 4, I realised that
the anacrucis in bar 0 was wrongly written in strand 4. Instead of a minim
and a crotchet rest it was a whole bar rest. Apparently, that brought strand
4 out of synch. Lesson: MOZART's rules must be followed very strictly by the
user, because the program itself will not enforce them all.

Otherwise, it is not a particularly remarkable piece, except as an adjunct to
the six other rondos (rondi?) also published here (Haydn6-1 to Haydn6-6). It
seems to me that Haydn has a lot of fun playing with the 3/4 time in all of
these rondos. If you wanted to dance a to them, you would be in for a few
surprises. In this piece, the surprise is the tied minim on the anacrucis.
When the piece starts, the dancers can have no idea about its rhythmical
structure.


Enjoy!
Michael Bednarek
mb@tgm.com.au http://www.geocities.com/mcmbednarek/