The gigue or giga is a lively
baroque dance, usually in a
compound metre such as 6/8, 6/4, 9/8 or 12/16. It is rare for one to be written in a
simple metre such as 3/8, but some do exist, as do even some written in 4/4. They often have a
contrapuntal texture.As a musical form, gigues frequently occur as movements in binary form in larger works such as
concertos and
sonatas. It was the most common final movement in a baroque
suite.Writers during the baroque era distinguished
French and
Italian gigues, and occasionally the gigue anglaise. The Italian and French forms seem to have derived from the
British jig which was danced at least as far back as the
15th century and is a common ancestor of modern
folk dance jigs.
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