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What is a gigue?

What is a gigue? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. an Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period).
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The suite ends with a lively gigue as shepherds and nymphs take their leave.
In 1726, Bach would also use hand crossing in the gigue of the first partita.
He would rise sharply into a fifth sous-sus to explode into a buoyant jump, peppered with the gigue, czardas, or mazurka of his beloved character dance.
Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all.
The last of the particularly characteristic dances is the gigue with its counterparts mentioned above.

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