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The Scherzo is not in triple time and indeed sounds more like the gavotte in Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, years before the fact.
A seagull struggled to cry over the gavotte that the school's ancient pipes were playing near me.
A group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
That is, the gavotte switches to a vivace, which dissolves into a brief, though affecting, adagio.
The missing movements in London are the minuet and the gavotte, and Dresden bears a different prelude.
These also start with an allemande, three of them contain a gavotte, and one is also in C minor.
Used extensively in 18th-century social dances such as the minuet and gavotte, this position has almost disappeared from theatrical usage.
This gavotte presents us with a typically Wessian challenge for the left hand.
The oboe and pizzicato strings introduce the second theme, a gavotte with a distinctly modern, angular melody.
Despite the fact that her head was beginning to pound horridly, she determinedly held her head high and slowly danced the gavotte perfectly without letting the book fall.
Before the mid-17th century a gavotte usually followed a series of branles, a dance to which it was closely related, and was performed in a line or circle.
Kent is oblivious to the fact that he couldn't possibly fit into this rarefied social environment, where the Social Dance is as complex as a gavotte.
He had recently orchestrated a gavotte with variations by Rameau, and had completed his Second Symphony, begun over five years before, but left unfinished until now.
Gavotte and Double in D p.22: as with the preceding gavotte, I find no evidence of weakness of writing, nor do I discern a hidden duo.
The oldest dances seem to be the passepied and the gavotte, and the newest ones derive from the quadrille and French Renaissance dances.
As for the Sonata no 1, alternate movements are to be connected with the Sonata no 2: The gavotte and double following in the London version, which will be discussed in the next section, and a chaconne ending the Warsaw copy.
The partita in E major contains only these four classical dances, making it the shortest of the 1718 collection and hence the decision to add a minuet and a gavotte.
It is Mr Murakami's turn, now, to cut in on the boy-girl gavotte.
It somewhat resembles the bourrée and the gavotte.
The first part is a gavotte, mainly for woodwinds, the second part a polonaise featuring solo violin, possibly an allusion to the nationality of so many of Vienna's tailors.
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In the intervals of his school work he composed a gavotte which had a quaint origin.
After breakfast I had a last practice with him and Lecomte for the gavotte.
I had heard that panthers cried that way, but gavotte said it was not a panther.
That thought had been growing, and the gavotte, the courante, the pavane becoming rehearsals.
So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay.
She drummed with one hand, then with both, at a gavotte on the rack before her.
The string band struck the preliminary cords of the gavotte.
Miss Kennedy played a gavotte, and then another, and then a sonata.
When accompanied by a musette, the gavotte is always repeated.
First they danced a gavotte, and then twirled off in a waltz.
I have heard of clean people, but gavotte is the cleanest man I ever saw.
Next morning gavotte met Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and invited her.
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