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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...
- optional movements were known as galanteries: common examples are the minuet, gavotte, p****epied, and bourrée. Often there would be two contrasting galanteries...
- 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...
- cool, they become crisp. In French, these crispy crêpes are called crêpes gavottes or crêpes dentelles; but when crumbled into small shards, they become feuilletine...
- 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...
- in Bach's suites by gavottes, bourrées, p****epieds or other movements. Examples of common galanteries include: Air Bourrée Gavotte Minuet Chaconne P****acaglia...
- style of composition by introducing quicker dances such as the bourrée, gavotte and gigue into his ballets. A beautiful example of his music is La Marche...
- 4 D maj. 3Tr Tmp 2Ob Bas Str Bc 311: 66 VII/1: 79 Ouverture 2Bourrée Gavotte 2Minuet Réjouissance; /1 → BWV 110/1 01255 1071 see BWV 1046.1 01229 12...
- originally appeared on their 1970 album "Air Conditioning". This version omits "Gavotte & Variations" and "Andante" from the original album. This version contains...
- 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...