• The gigue (/ʒiːɡ/ ZHEEG, French: [ʒiɡ]) or giga (Italian: [ˈdʒiːɡa]) is a lively baroque dance originating from the English jig. It was imported into...
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    scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the...
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    Kleine Gigue in G major, K. 574, is a composition for solo piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his stay in Leipzig. It is dated 16 May 1789, the day...
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    courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue. Gary S. Dalkin of MusicWeb International called Bach's cello suites "among...
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  • Loure (redirect from Gigue lente)
    The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the...
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    allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue, in that order, and developed during the 17th century in France, the gigue appearing later than the others. Johann...
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    progression of the dance movements (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) and which did not typically feature a Prelude. Unlike the unmeasured preludes...
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  • Double de la Courante – Sarabande – Gigue – Menuet – Gavotte Suite No. 5 in G Major: Sarabande – Sarabande – Gigue Suite No. 6 in C Minor: Prélude – Tombeau...
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    Courante Sarabande Menuet I Menuet II Gigue Allemande Courante Sarabande Air Menuet Menuet – Trio (in BWV 813a) Gigue French Suite No. 3 in B minor (MIDI...
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    Sarabande, Burlesca, Scherzo, Gigue Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 Ouverture, Allemande, Courante, Aria, Sarabande, Menuet, Gigue Partita No. 5 in G major...
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    the characteristic 'halting', or iambic rhythm of the sarabande. Gigue – The gigue is an upbeat and lively baroque dance in compound meter, typically...
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    Bach, W. F.? (BR A55); ↔ BWV 844 00984 845 II Gigue F min. Keyboard 42: 263 V/12 00985 II 81 II Gigue [scores] (incomplete) D min. Keyboard V/12 by Kellner...
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    / Gigue / Cannaris / Chaconne l'Inconstante / Menuet Suite in G minor: Prelude / Allemande / Courante / 2d Courante / Sarabande / Gigue / 2d Gigue / Menuet...
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    sarabande and gigue in the baroque style, except that this work substitutes a bourrée (marked Tempo di Borea) for the more typical gigue. Also, each movement...
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    Miss de Vère (English Jig) (French: Miss de Vère) was an 1896 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company...
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    suggested by Burkhalter to have been south of Tarik el Jedideh, where P.E. Gigues discovered a Copper Age flint industry at around 100 metres (328 feet) above...
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    between the sarabande and gigue. The French Suites omit preludes but have multiple movements between the sarabande and gigue. The partitas expand the model...
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  • media help. It has five movements: Preludio Fuga Sarabande Gigue Double (variation on the gigue) – If the double is counted as a separate movement. "BWV997"...
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    in E minor, BWV 996. Prelude-Presto Allemande Courante Sarabande Bourre Gigue Problems playing these files? See media help. Performances by Martha Goldstein...
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    Gieseking performing Johann Sebastian Bach's: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147 French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 – Gigue in 1939 Here on archive.org...
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  • Welcome Home Bell Vedere The Spanish Pavin A Gigue A Gigue Walking in a country town Bony sweet boy A Gigue Lantero Three parts in one upon a[n old]ground...
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    is often known as "jigging", and in French, the dance form is called "la gigue". Step dancing includes clog dancing in which the steps are performed by...
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    single was titled "The Stranger" and was reworked in 1981 as "L'étranger (Gigue existentielle)" for the Suite en sous-sol EP. The lyrics to both versions...
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    between 1728 and 1729. It includes a "Lilliputian" chaconne, a "Brobigdinian" gigue as well as a Loure of the "well-mannered houyhnhnms" combined with a Fury...
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    third of four movements. It was often paired with and followed by a jig or gigue. Bach sometimes gave the sarabande a privileged place in his music, where...
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    became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga). Today it is most associated with Irish dance...
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  • The beginning of the chromatic gigue from Partita No. 1 in A minor for solo violin by Westhoff....
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    the concluding movement was dance-like, most often with rhythms of the gigue or minuet, and returned to the key of the opening section. As the form evolved...
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  • Präludium; Presto 2. Allemande 3. Courante 4. Sarabande 5. Bourrée 6. Gigue Performed by Martha Goldstein Problems playing these files? See media help...
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    (Allegro) Alla Hornpipe Lentement Bourrée Minuet Sarabande Rigaudon Menuet Gigue There is evidence for the different arrangement found in Chrysander's Gesellschaft...
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