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
- : 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.
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