![]() ![]() The gavotte could be played at a variety of tempi: Johann Gottfried Walther wrote that the gavotte is "often quick but occasionally slow". There is a Gavotte en Rondeau ("Gavotte in rondo form") in J.S. Like most dance movements of the Baroque period it is typically in binary form but this may be extended by a second melody in the same metre, often one called the musette, having a pedal drone to imitate the French bagpipes, played after the first to create a grand ternary form A–(A)–B–A. In the Baroque suite the gavotte is played after (or sometimes before) the sarabande. Musical characteristics Ī Tempo di Gavotti by George Frideric Handel The word is cognate to French gavache (coward, dastard). The term gavotte for a lively dance originated in the 1690s from Old Provençal gavoto (mountaineer's dance) from gavot, a local name for an Alpine resident, said to mean literally "boor", "glutton", from gaver (to stuff, force-feed poultry) from Old Provençal gava (crop). The gavotte of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries has nothing in common with the 19th-century column-dance called the "gavotte" but may be compared with the rigaudon and the bourrée. In early courtly use the gavotte involved kissing, but this was replaced by the presentation of flowers. The dance was popular in France throughout the 18th century and spread widely. Many were composed by Lully, Rameau and Gluck, and the 17th-century cibell is a variety. Popular at the court of Louis XIV, it became one of many optional dances in the classical suite of dances. In late 16th-century Renaissance dance, the gavotte is first mentioned as the last of a suite of branles. It is notated in 4Ģ time and is usually of moderate tempo, though the folk dances also use meters such as 9 According to another reference, the word gavotte is a generic term for a variety of French folk dances, and most likely originated in Lower Brittany in the west, or possibly Provence in the southeast or the French Basque Country in the southwest of France. The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source.
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