How To Use Gavotte In A Sentence
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When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel.
Stepping Through History
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Before the mid-17th century a gavotte usually followed a series of branles, a dance to which it was closely related, and was performed in a line or circle.
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His concertos are made up of strings of juxtaposed contrasting movements (between four and six per concerto) and you sense that he could go on adding more gigues, sarabandes and gavottes without damaging the overall structure.
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Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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It was also frequently included in the suite as an optional movement and was, like the bourrée and gavotte, usually placed after the sarabande.
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Gavotte said he suspected they were short of "needfuls," so he had filled his pockets with coffee and sugar, took in a bottle some of the milk I brought for Baby, and his own flask of whiskey, without which he never travels.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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They turned a stern test of horse and rider into a joyous gavotte of simple beauty.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is unlike the waltz, the gavotte, the country dance, the Scotch reel, the Spanish Cachucha, the Hungarian mazurka; is far worse than jota Arragonese, or the most lascivious of Spanish dances of Andalusia.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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The farandole bears similarities to the gavotte, jig, and tarantella.
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels
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I count it as one of the most spontaneous gavottes of modern times, one that is buoyant with the afflation of the olden days.
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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Do we really have to dance this gavotte all over again?
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Meanwhile, away from the pain and hurt of individuals, the medical debate continues its stately gavotte - and its occasional less than stately spat - in the journals and conferences.
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Composers who wrote instrumental gavottes include François Couperin, Rameau, Purcell, Pachelbel, and J. C. F. Fischer.
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That is, the gavotte switches to a vivace, which dissolves into a brief, though affecting, adagio.
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Despite the fact that her head was beginning to pound horridly, she determinedly held her head high and slowly danced the gavotte perfectly without letting the book fall.
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The Scherzo is not in triple time and indeed sounds more like the gavotte in Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, years before the fact.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A seagull struggled to cry over the gavotte that the school's ancient pipes were playing near me.
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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.
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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.
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A group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
