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Definition of Gavottes

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Gavot Gav"ot (? or ?; 277), n. [F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.] (Mus.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

Meaning of Gavottes from wikipedia

- century wrote gavottes that began, like the 16th-century gavotte, on the downbeat rather than on the half-measure upbeat. The famous Gavotte in D by Gossec...
- prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue. Gary S. Dalkin of MusicWeb International called Bach's...
- cards, with the Kings at the right column and the Queens at the left. Gavotte or Odds and Evens (also known as Palace) is a rare solitaire game that...
- rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes) makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice (songs, and...
- optional movements were known as galanteries: common examples are the minuet, gavotte, p****epied, and bourrée. Often there would be two contrasting galanteries...
- in Bach's suites by gavottes, bourrées, p****epieds or other movements. Examples of common galanteries include: Air Bourrée Gavotte Minuet Chaconne P****acaglia...
- origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm. However,...
- Prelude, a second Gavotte and a Menuet. French Suite No. 5 in G major (MIDI realization) I. Allemande II. Courante III. Sarabande IV. Gavotte V. Bourrée VI...
- Piotr Anderszewski (Nos. 1, 3 & 5, Warner classics, 2014) Pablo Casals (Gavottes I and II from English Suite No. 6, BWV 811, arr. Fernand Pollain; Naxos...
- Sonatas and Partitas. It consists of the following movements: Preludio Loure Gavotte en Rondeau Menuets (I and II) Bourrée Gigue It takes about 15–18 minutes...