Post by lawrence on Nov 30, 2017 1:00:54 GMT
This piece is the second in a Suite of Antique Dances. The intent is to have dancers perform as the music plays. The gavotte is a dance in 4/4 of moderate tempo where the major sections start on beat 3. This gives the dancers a two beat intro. It appears to be a square dance, do si do, swing your partner, pinwheels, etc. in slow motion except there are hops. To facilitate the hopping I have incorporated a figure of two triplets where the third note of the triplet is a rest. It sounds like a hiccup. So ladies hop on the first hiccup, men hop on the second hiccup.
The gavotte was all the rage in Louis XVI's court, the Louvre circa 1670. The composer was Jean Baptiste Lully. Actually I feel like French music didn't became interesting until Debussy, Saint Saens, and Ravel. Here is the gavotte, short and simple.
Don't know if this is a finished piece. I guess you will be the judge of that.
