How To Use gigue In A Sentence
- Much of it is in dance forms, such as the sarabande, the courante, the menuet, and the gigue - another innovation in French chamber music of that era.
- Josephine Yannacopoulou, 30, a PhD student of medieval organology, says she was "hijacked" by the instrument while researching her thesis on an ancient Mexican dance, which transferred to France in medieval times and became the formal "gigue", performed at court in the ballet style. Archive 2007-05-01
- Although many late Renaissance dances comprised three strains, binary form came to be used in nearly all dance movements (allemandes, courantes, sarabandes, gigues, etc.) in 17th and 18th-century dance suites.
- He would rise sharply into a fifth sous-sus to explode into a buoyant jump, peppered with the gigue, czardas, or mazurka of his beloved character dance.
- The Detroit native completed his hat trick, circling from the corner to Giguere's left and snapping a wrist shot from the faceoff circle past the goalie, during a power play with 1: 48 to play in the second. USATODAY.com
- She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all.
- We have remarked on Hahn's adumbrations of this movement in an earlier one, but one senses a disconnect between the end of the ‘Gigue’ and the beginning of the ‘Ciaccona.’
- Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
- A sharp-elbowed reading of the air dissolved into an impressionistic sarabande, while the tempo di gavotta and gigue glittered. Times, Sunday Times
- Much of it is in dance forms, such as the sarabande, the courante, the menuet, and the gigue - another innovation in French chamber music of that era.
