gavotte

Supposedly originated by the natives of Gap (Gavots) in the southeastern French province of Dauphiné, the gavotte was danced in royal ballrooms as a round with skipping steps adapted from the branle. Couples concluded improvised duet performances by kissing their partners.

Like the branle, the gavotte was a line or a circle dance. The basic step involved dancers moving alternately to the left or right to a count of four. These steps combined large outward steps (pied largi), the other foot drawn near the first (pied approche), a pied largi, and a pied joint (the other foot drawn in).

gavotte. noun. ga·​votte gə-ˈvät. : a French peasant dance in moderately quick 4/4 time.

Passage of four steps, equivalent to a double left:

• step left with the left foot (pied largy gaulche) & petit sault.
• bring your right foot next to your left (pied droit approché.) & petit sault.
• tap right toes in front of left foot (marque-pied droit croisé)

The gavotte became popular in the court of Louis XIV where Jean-Baptiste Lully was the leading court composer. Gaétan Vestris did much to define the dance. Subsequently many composers of the Baroque period incorporated the dance as one of many optional additions to the standard instrumental suite of the era.

Singers often provided the accompaniment, though dancers might also be accompanied by an ensemble of such instruments as a violin, a drum, and a bagpipe or shawm, a precursor of the modern oboe. The gavotte was danced in high-society ballrooms as a round with skipping steps.

Brittany region The gavotte was a folk dance, performed by the peasants in the Brittany region of France. Later it was popular in French and English courts in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Gavotte, piece No. 5 in Suzuki Violin School, Volume 3 is in the G minor key, meter is 4/4 and tempo is di Gavotte. Gavotte is an original violin composition, it is Shinichi Suzuki's arrangement of Gavotte in G minor for Violin and Piano by Jean Becker.

The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm. However, it is somewhat quicker, and its phrase starts with a quarter-bar anacrusis or "pick-up", whereas a gavotte has a half-bar anacrusis.

[2] The bourrée somewhat resembles the gavotte , it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm but it is somewhat quicker and its phrase starts with a quarter-bar anacrusis or "pick-up" whereas a gavotte has a half-bar anacrusis.