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Example sentences for "gavotte"

Lexicographically close words:
gave; gavel; gavelkind; gavest; gavial; gawa; gawan; gawdy; gawk; gawky
  1. Then the Gavotte in this book is as graceful and catching as the Gavotte de Louis Treize, and would be in great request with orchestras and bands everywhere.

  2. He has never written a sonata, or anything approaching the classical forms, nearer than a gavotte or two.

  3. So fine a work as his "Gavotte in B Minor" has no need to consider the resources of the modern instrument.

  4. Among the best of the best pastoral music, I should place Smith's "Gavotte Pastorale.

  5. Prelude, a tender Air, a luscious Intermezzo in the rich key of B major with soli for violin and 'cello, a Romance with a good climax, and a gallant Gavotte with special attention to the too much slighted violas.

  6. There is a quaint sarabande, and a gavotte written on simple lines, but superbly.

  7. The great room slowly cleared; the precise and animating music of a gavotte came sharply across the laughter and talk.

  8. A band was playing a new gavotte composed by the jovial Henry of Navarre, and introduced by the French into Heidelberg.

  9. The newest melody for the time in Heidelberg was the Gavotte of that jovial Huguenot Henry IV.

  10. Brahms' well-known arrangement for Pianoforte of Gluck's Gavotte in A was published in 1871 by Senff.

  11. The Brahms Gavotte was enthusiastically applauded, but Frau Schumann, having regard to the performance of the 'Carnaval' before her, refused the encore.

  12. His playing even of such a trifle as Gluck's Gavotte in A, arranged for Frau Schumann in 1871, which the author more than once heard, was full of unsought graces that were the immediate reflection of his delicate spirit.

  13. Saraband and Gavotte in the style of Bach Johannes Brahms.

  14. She gave six recitals, and introduced into two of her programmes respectively Brahms' Saraband and Gavotte and the andante and scherzo from his F minor Sonata.

  15. She sang an Arietta by Antonio Salieri, then she played a Toccata by Leonardo Leo, a Gavotte by Rameau, a Gigue by Sebastian Bach.

  16. With the soft pedal down, some one is trying over that gavotte of Rameau's, so full of bewitching melancholy, that I was playing just now.

  17. I played the Gavotte of the Yellow Ladies, of which Francesca is so fond and which I heard some one trying to play on the 16th of September while I sat up in my room and began my nightly vigils of unrest.

  18. The gavotte has stopped, some one is going down the steps into the garden.

  19. The fugue is remarkable for having a very long subject, which is almost a gavotte in its rhythm; and the splendid subject is developed with charming freedom.

  20. All the instrumental pieces of this program except the two inventions and the Tours arrangement of the Gavotte in E are in the "Bach Album," Peters edition, No.

  21. When the vicar heard of the accident from the Dook, he was sitting in the drawing-room listening to Miss Eva playing a then fashionable gavotte by a then fashionable composer.

  22. This letter contains explicit directions how the gavotte used to be danced when our ancestors lived in the Place des Vosges.

  23. She handed her fiddle to a bystander and the gavotte proceeded, the three old ladies bowing and holding up their skirts and pointing their toes with the grace of bygone times.

  24. Under the fingers of the old woman the music scratched along like dead leaves along a pathway, without accent, without rhythm; now the old gavotte tripped like the springtime, pretty as the budding trees, as the sunlight along the swards.

  25. He was one day in a music publisher's shop in Edinburgh, when he saw a gavotte on the counter which had won a prize of L5 or L10 offered by the firm for the best composition in gavotte form submitted to them.

  26. Johnstone, "Well, if I couldn't compose a better gavotte than that in the time it takes to write it down I should think even worse of myself than I do.

  27. In the intervals of his school work he composed a Gavotte which had a quaint origin.

  28. I never could have believed that anyone could evolve anything like a gavotte from the whirling chaos of arms and legs that was my first impression.

  29. Both chorus and gavotte were encored, and there was much applause when the curtain fell.

  30. He and Florence Williams made great friends, and he promised to play her a gavotte whenever she likes if she would dance.

  31. Therefore a measured and stately gavotte was danced by the young people every Thursday, and perhaps a majestic pavane afterward.

  32. Lydie watched the gavotte with dreamy, abstracted eyes; every now and then the Queen spoke to her, and the force of habit caused her to reply coherently and with that formality of expression, which Her Majesty liked to hear.

  33. The monotonous tune of the gavotte with its distinct and sharply defined beat, sounded to her like the measured clink of a horse's hoofs on rough hard ground.

  34. One notices also that the Eighth Suite in G major is in the French style (particularly the Gavotte in rondo with five variations).

  35. The Gavotte theme from the Overture to Ottone was played all over England and on all kinds of instruments, "even on the pan's-pipes of the perambulating jugglers.

  36. At the end of the first act of Ariodante, a duet (gavotte style) is taken up by the chorus, then danced without voices; finally sung and danced.

  37. A Gavotte concludes the first, second, and third trios.

  38. The gavotte was supposedly introduced to the French court in the sixteenth century as part of the entertainment enacted by natives in provincial costumes.

  39. The Gavotte was a widely used dance form in the music of the eighteenth century.

  40. Abraham finds a "distant affinity" between this second theme and the Gavotte of Prokofieff's "Classical Symphony.

  41. I should not want the Soviet listener to judge me solely by the March from 'The Love of Three Oranges' and the Gavotte from the 'Classical Symphony.

  42. So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay.

  43. However, this episode with the second of the l'Espérances soon came to an end, for Polyrène fell dead during a gavotte at court.

  44. She drummed with one hand, then with both, at a gavotte on the rack before her.

  45. Let me ask one last favor----" The gavotte rippled under her fingers.

  46. The little gavotte is an old dance in the second-hand book store.

  47. Broken down best sellers here--pausing in their gavotte toward oblivion.

  48. The gavotte is beautiful and pretty hard, I think, and very much of the period; and at the end of it, this musette enters with the most really thrilling effect of simple beauty.

  49. But it ought, of course, to have the gavotte before.

  50. Scarpia orders the window to be thrown open, and borne on the evening air comes the sound of a gavotte from the orchestra which is playing in one of the lower rooms at an entertainment given by Queen Caroline.

  51. His Grace thereupon advises them to impress their court with their importance, and to the strains of a delightful gavotte he gives the awkward fellows a lesson in the arts of deportment.

  52. The eight heroines of the gavotte sipped the sweets of adulation for a short time, completely overshadowing their less brilliant but equally meritorious partners, till the last of their audience had departed.

  53. Rob had had an inspiration, and had written words to be sung by the dancers to a beautiful old French gavotte air, as they moved through the stately figures of the charming dance.

  54. The concert that was to precede the gavotte was to be costumed fantastically, and when the girls were ready one could hardly have said whether the picture they presented, huddled, laughing together, was prettier or funnier.

  55. She was tired, and yet the echoes of the gavotte still haunted her.

  56. The orchestra sounded a few bars, and suddenly the sixteen dancers began to sing to the old French gavotte the words which Rob had written, beginning the dance at the same time.

  57. See if you can do a gavotte to the shepherd song I was trying yesterday.

  58. The music of a gavotte had begun and it was like a ripple of laughter.


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