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gavotte

/guh-vot/US // gəˈvɒt //UK // (ɡəˈvɒt) //

加沃特舞曲,加沃特舞,加沃特曲,加夫特舞

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Examples

  • She was seated upon it, when I arrived with the third load, and through the house were dancing the sounds of a Bach gavotte.

  • The great room slowly cleared; the precise and animating music of a gavotte came sharply across the laughter and talk.

  • As an illustration of this fact, there is a little Gavotte of mine, which I had occasion to play several times in Paris.

  • When Eagle had watched them awhile she started up, spread her skirts in a sweeping courtesy, and began to dance a gavotte.

  • He taught her the gavotte, the pavane, and many other dances, playing the measures on an old violin the while.