A GAVOTTE.
The gavotte is a dance which was invented by the French family Gayot, who lived in Dauphine. It was one of the stately court dances; popular in the' seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which a lady danced with a gentleman; who held lightly her finger-tips. The movements were rather slow. Most composers of that time wrote gavottes, and all seem to agree that there shall be four beats to a bar and that you begin on the third beat. A gavotte has two distinct parts and each of them repeats itself] Sometimes it is written with a drone bass going on below; then it is called a Musette.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 22
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109A GAVOTTE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 22
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