Misc: Which author wrote plays about love, hate, marriage, emancipation, and VD?

Questions

- slower.?

(Fr.), menuett (Ger.) - Same as minuet.?

- Term used by German composers who believed it to be Italian for minuet. The Italian for minuet is minuetto.?

(It.) - The steady increasing and decreasing of volume on one long held note in singing.?

(Fr. and Ger.) - Same as mass.?