rigaudon

[ rig-uh-doon ] show ipa. noun. a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter. a piece of music for this dance or in its rhythm.

rigaudon (French riɡodɔ̃) / (ˌrɪɡəˈduːn) / noun. an old Provençal couple dance, light and graceful, in lively duple time. a piece of music for or in the rhythm of this dance.

The pas de rigaudon is made up of a contretemps of one step, and a spring on the same spot: the contretemps is done beginning in first position, [with the free foot going] to the side off the floor, and returning to the same first position, and the following step is the same without springing, and the [final] spring is ...

rigaudon, also spelled Rigadoon, sprightly 17th-century French folk dance for couples. Its hopping steps were adopted by the skillful dancers of the French and English courts, where it remained fashionable through the 18th century.

This fugue is worked through in the authentic Baroque manner, using inversion of the fugue subject, and augmentation of its 16th notes into 8ths, as the principal contrapuntal devices employed. The 28-year-old Brahms played this work at his debut concert in Vienna in 1862, the year it was composed.

noun,plural ri·gau·dons [French ree-goh-dawn].

noun. an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter. a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance, often forming one of the movements in the classical suite, usually following the saraband.

The rigaudon (French: [ʁiɡodɔ̃, ʁiɡɔdɔ̃], Occitan: [riɣawˈðu]), anglicized as rigadon or rigadoon, is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre. The music is similar to that of a bourrée, but the rigaudon is rhythmically simpler with regular phrases (eight measure phrases are most common).

The music is similar to that of a bourrée, but the rigaudon is rhythmically simpler with regular phrases (eight measure phrases are most common). It originated as a sprightly 17th-century French folk dance for couples.

Henry Purcell Composed by Henry Purcell.

Fugue is a complex style of composition that can be employed in almost genre; this page will give you a general sense of what late Baroque fugues involved. Fugal writing is a very complex form of counterpoint. In the Baroque it could also be considered a genre, as many pieces were composed as stand-alone fugues.

noun,plural ri·gau·dons [French ree-goh-dawn].