Gavotte from "Mignon"

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The gavotte (also gavot or gavote) originated as a French folk dance, taking its name from the Gavot people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné, where the dance originated.^{[citation needed]} It is notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time and is of moderate tempo. The distinctive rhythmic feature of the 18th-century French court gavotte is that phrases begin in the middle of the bar; that is, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time, the phrases begin on the thirdquarter note (crotchet) of the bar, creating a half-measure (half-bar) upbeat  Read more

                                        The History of Gavotte from "Mignon"

                          Gavotte from Mignon- practice clip by Allisson`s Violin Studio

Mignon - Synopsis

An Opera by Ambroise Thomas

                                                       Ambroise Thomas 

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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811, Metz – 12 February 1896, Paris) was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, afterShakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.

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