A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.
Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
(Fr.; the Italian is gavotta) : Baroque dance in moderate duple meter with prominate upbeat.
an old formal French dance in quadruple time
An old French dance in double rythm beginning on the unaccented beat.
a Baroque dance of French peasant origin that is sometimes included in instrumental suites
(fr.) - Frenche Dance in 4/4, 17th/18th century, still alive in the Bretagne, rather quick [back
Duple meter Baroque dance type of a pastoral character.
An old French dance in 4/4 time, beginning with two upbeats. The gavotte is more lively than the minuet.
an elegant dance in moderate duple meter and in binary form, often with a homophonic texture and simple rhythms. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the gavotte was a type of branle. In the middle of the 17th century, the gavotte emerged as a new dance with similar musical characteristics, becoming popular in the operas and ballets of Lully and Rameau. The gavotte (or frequently a pair of gavottes) often followed the sarabande in a suite.
A dance movement of a piece of music. A gavotte is an old French dance in common time, beginning on the third beat of the bar.
A gracious Baroque dance in duple meter.
The gavotte (also gavot or gavote) originated as a French folk dance, taking its name from the Gavot people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné, where the dance originated. It is notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time and is of moderate tempo.