Template:Short description Template:For-multi
The gigue (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) or giga ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a lively baroque dance originating from the English jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century<ref>Bellingham, Jane, "gigue." The Oxford Companion to Music. Ed. Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online. 6 July 2008 Template:Subscription required</ref> and usually appears at the end of a suite. The gigue was probably never a court dance, but it was danced by nobility on social occasions and several court composers wrote gigues.<ref name=horst>Louis Horst, Pre-Classic Dance Forms, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1987), 54–60.</ref>
A gigue is usually in Template:Music or in one of its compound metre derivatives, such as Template:Music, Template:Music, Template:Music or Template:Music, although there are some gigues written in other metres, as for example the gigue from Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite (BWV 812), which is written in Template:Music and has a distinctive strutting "dotted" rhythm.
Gigues often have a contrapuntal texture as well as often having accents on the third beats in the bar, making the gigue a lively folk dance.
In early French theatre, it was customary to end a play's performance with a gigue, complete with music and dancing.<ref name=horst/>
A gigue, like other Baroque dances, consists of two sections.
EtymologyEdit
An early Italian dance called the giga probably derives its name from a small accompanying stringed instrument called the giga. Historians, such as Charles Read Baskerville, claim that use of the word in relation to dancing took place in England prior to such usage on the Continent. Giga probably has a separate etymology.<ref name=horst />
Cultural referencesEdit
Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones is structured in different parts, each one of these named after a Baroque dance, the last part being called Gigue.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Simone Voyer, La Gigue, Québec: GID, 2003 Template:ISBN Template:In lang