gavotte

[ UK /ɡˈævɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
  2. an old formal French dance in quadruple time
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How To Use gavotte In A Sentence

  • Composers who wrote instrumental gavottes include François Couperin, Rameau, Purcell, Pachelbel, and J. C. F. Fischer.
  • A group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
  • Yve, kindly lady that she is, came to rescue me - but all for naught, as she was swept up into the lively gavotte before she could play-act knight in shining armor.
  • He had recently orchestrated a gavotte with variations by Rameau, and had completed his Second Symphony, begun over five years before, but left unfinished until now.
  • A seagull struggled to cry over the gavotte that the school's ancient pipes were playing near me.
  • Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues. Authors Duke It Out For NYC Book Signing Outlets
  • Kent is oblivious to the fact that he couldn't possibly fit into this rarefied social environment, where the Social Dance is as complex as a gavotte.
  • Between the two large explosions in the first movement, violin and orchestra engage in a stately kind of gavotte that eventually gathers to a critical mass and lunges forth in Russian figures of mass and fury. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • Yve, kindly lady that she is, came to rescue me - but all for naught, as she was swept up into the lively gavotte before she could play-act knight in shining armor.
  • Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
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