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gigue::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jig |
| Type of | dance music |
Examples of gigue
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Many later suites included other movements placed between sarabande and gigue.
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Examples of dances include the French courante, sarabande, minuet and gigue.
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The gigue can start on any beat of the bar and is easily recognized by its rhythmic feel.
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Nymphs dance a graceful gigue through the finale as the sun emerges from behind the clouds.
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The French Suites omit preludes, but have multiple movements between the sarabande and the gigue.
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Keyboard suites from this time often conclude with a fugal gigue.
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The piece opens with a fast-paced and exuberant gigue, a form most composers would have used as a finale.
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The Italian giga is rarer than the gigue, and is faster with running passages over a harmonic basis.
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At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals.
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- Jig: music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the British jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century and usually appears at the end of a suite. ...
- A quick, springy dance often used as the concluding movement to 18th century instrumental suites.
- A fast compound duple or triple time (usually 6/4 or 6/8) dance with a light texture.
- The gigue (= Italian: giga; English: jig) is a rapid dance normally in compound duple metre (the main beats divided into three rather than two). The gigue became the accepted final dance in the baroque instrumental suite.
- Lively Baroque dance in compound metre 6/8, 9/8, 12/8.
- A dance in the lively triple meter serving as the last dance in the typical Baroque Suite
- A Renaissance and baroque dance with a fast tempo and, usually, a sextuple meter.
