rigaudonn.

1706 London Gaz. No. 4213/4 With an Addition of the English Rigaudon and French Bretagne.

1773 tr. J. Hermann Trav. through Sicily ii. 213 Every country has its peculiar dances; thus there is the Swabian and Alsace dance in Germany; the Rigaudon or Rigadoon in Provence.

1890 Monthly Music Rec. 1 Sept. 200/2 The Rigaudon, a dance invented by the French dancing-master Rigaud, is actually a kind of bourrée or hornpipe.

1923 E. Sitwell Bucolic Comedies 26 Dancing with angels all in a round, Hornpipe and rigaudon on the Fair's ground.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 801/2 The rigaudon was gay and lively until its promotion from the village green to the aristocratic ball-room and the court, when it took on dignity.

1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. i. 109/1 Patrick Mazellier and the groups Drailles and Rigodon Sauvage have revived the violin tradition and its local dance, the rigaudon of the Dauphiné province.

1708 A. Boyer tr. J. Donneau de Visé Hist. Siege of Toulon 45 I..order'd my youngest Son, who beats a Drum well, not to beat a March, but another Point, call'd a Rigaudon.

1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music Rigaudon, a melody, in alla breve time, suitable for dancing, of a light and playful character.

1897 T. Baker tr. C. F. Weitzmann Hist. Pianoforte-playing 67 The Passe-pied..has three or four reprises in an even number of measures, the third, as in the Rigaudon, being short and toying or dallying.

1920 C. G. Hamilton Mus. Appreciation i. xi. 244 A running movement in eighth and quarter notes is prevalent in the Rigaudon.

1970 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music (rev. ed.) 734/1 The rigaudon also occurs in the suites of modern composers (Grieg, From Holberg's Time; Ravel, le Tombeau de Couperin).

2005 C. Hogwood Handel iii. 26 Handel recycled some of his earliest allemandes as rigaudons.