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gavotte|gəˈvɒt|
Also 7–8 gavote, 8–9 gavot(t.
[a. F. gavotte (in Cotgr. gavote), ad. mod.Pr. gavoto, dance of the Gavots, a name given in Provence to the natives of the Alps.]
a. A kind of dance, resembling the minuet, but requiring a more lively movement.
b. The music used to accompany this dance; a piece of music in common time, moderately quick, and consisting of two parts, each of which is repeated; frequently forming one of the movements of the Suite.
1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 284 The Greek Dances are..a sort of Country Dance..and.. a kind of Gavote or Branle, in which the Men and Women are mingl'd. 1727Pope, etc. Martin. Scriblerus xii. (1741) 46 With the several modifications of this tune-playing quality in playing of Preludes, Sarabands, Jigs, and Gavotts. 1776Sir J. Hawkins Hist. Mus. IV. iii. i. 389 The Gavot..is hardly to be traced further backwards than..about the year 1670. 1876Ouida Winter City iii. 65, I am certain he went to sleep one night after a gavotte with Montespan, and has just awakened. 1879Grove's Dict. Music I. 586/1 The gavotte should always begin on the third beat of the bar, each part finishing, therefore, with a half-bar.
attrib.1774Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. vi. 82 It must not be imagined that in our simple airs of the gavot and minuet kind we have no musical rhythm.
Hence gaˈvotte v., to dance a gavotte. rare—1.
1819H. Busk Vestriad iii. 62 In rusty gown gavotting at a ball. |