Baroque dance

thumb|Minuet in the classical period (music)|Classical period

thumb|right|A gavotte in Brittany, France, 1878 The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source. According to another reference, the word gavotte is a generic term for a variety of French folk dances, and most likely originated in Lower Brittany in the west, or possibly Provence in the southeast or the French Basque Country in the southwest of France. It is notated in or time and is usually of moderate t

thumb|upright=1.4|A sarabande in binary form by Johann Kuhnau

thumb|Allemande, from a dancing manual of

thumb|right|250px|Gigue rhythm.

thumb|upright=1.4|Bernardo Storace, last bars of Passagagli sopra A la mi re and beginning of Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut, from Selva di varie compositioni (Venice, 1664) The passacaglia (; ) is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers. It is usually of a serious character and is typically based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre.

thumb|The "Ciaccona" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)|Partita for Violin No. 2

thumb|Borrèia in Auvergne, early 20th century

thumb|upright=1.35|A courante rhythm

right|thumb|Galliard in Siena, Italy, 15th century

thumb|Dancing the Haymakers' Jig at an Irish ceilidh The jig (, ) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity across the British Isles in the 16th-century, and was adopted on mainland Europe where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga). Today it is most associated with Irish dance music, Scottish country dance, French Canadian traditional music and dance and the Métis people in Canada. Jigs were originally in quadruple compound metre, (e.g., t

thumb|250px|Passepied from opera-Entr'acte|interlude [[The Shagreen Bone]]

thumb|The Hornpipe by Andries Both The hornpipe is any of several dance forms and their associated tunes, played and danced in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day. The dance is still performed in competition. George Frideric Handel's hornpipe from Water Music is one of his most famous compositions.

thumb|Beauchamp–Feuillet notation|dance notation for the first 18 bars of a rigadoon by Isaac, published in Orchesography or the Art of Dancing ... an Exact and Just Translation from the French of Monsieur Feuillet; by John Weaver, Dancing Master. Second edition. Walsh, London, c. 1721. The rigaudon (, ), anglicized as rigadon or rigadoon, is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre. The music is similar to that of a bourrée, but the rigaudon is rhythmically simpler with regular phrases (eight measure phrases are most common). It originated as a sprightly 17th-century French folk dance

The furlana (also spelled furlane, forlane, friulana, forlana) is an Italian folk dance from the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In Friulian, furlane means Friulian, in this case Friulian Dance. In Friuli there has been a Slav minority since the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps, and the furlana may well have originated as a Slavonic dance. It dates at least to 1583, when a "ballo furlano" called ''L'arboscello was published in Pierre Phalèse the Younger’s Chorearum molliorum collectanea'' and in Jakob Paix’s organ tablature book, though its chief popularity extended from the late

The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the sound of the instrument of the same name (a type of musette). It is of slow or moderate tempo, sometimes in simple triple meter but more often in compound duple meter. The weight is on the first beat, a characteristic emphasised by the preceding anacrusis, which begins the traditional loure. Another feature is the lilting dotted rhythm.

French ballet dancer

dance of the Baroque era

type of dance

dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances; first published in 1651 by John Playford

thumb|The tambourin de Provence. thumb|Tambourin players in the early 1900s in Aix-en-Provence The tambourin () is a low-pitched tenor drum of the French region of Provence, which has also lent its name to a Provençal dance accompanied by lively duple meter music. The dance is so named because the music imitates the drum (tambour being a generic French term for "drum"), usually as a repetitive not-very-melodic figure in the bass.

French dancer

system of Baroque dance notation