text: The best-known "Badinerie" is the final movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor.
  Badineries in French ouvertures by Christoph Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann.
  The scherzo, as most commonly known today, developed from the minuet and trio, and gradually came to replace it as the third (sometimes second) movement in symphonies, string quartets, sonatas, and similar works. It traditionally retains the triple meter time signature and ternary form of the minuet, but is considerably quicker. It is often, but not always, of a light-hearted nature.
  The main features include a 6 - 8 bar melody with one beat per bar feel.
  Form
  The scherzo itself is a rounded binary form, but, like the minuet, is usually played with the accompanying trio followed by a repeat of the scherzo, creating the ABA or ternary form. This is sometimes done twice or more (ABABA). The "B" theme is a trio, a contrasting section not necessarily for only three instruments, as was often the case with the second minuet of classical suites (the first Brandenburg Concerto has a famous example). In some cases the scherzo is in sonata form, for example the third movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony in E Minor.
  Appearance/examples in compositions
  Scherzos occasionally differ from this traditional structure in various ways.