Crossword-Solution: GIGUE 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Come, tell me what are your accomplishments." "I can play the lute, the violin, the flageolet, the harp, the syrinx and the regals," the other replied; "also the Spanish penola that is struck with a quill, the organistrum that a wheel turns round, the wait so delightful, the rebeck so enchanting, the little gigue that chirps up on high, and the great horn that booms like thunder." Bracciolini said: "That is something.

The first movement consisted of an _allemande_; then came a _courante_; then a _minuet_; then a _sarabande_; and last of all a _gigue_; all in the same key.

Even when the dance titles were no more used (the music having long outgrown its original purpose), the distinctive characteristics of these different movements were retained; the _sarabande_ rhythm was still adhered to for the _adagio_ (even by Haydn) and the triple time and rhythm of the _gigue_ were given to the last part.

The last movement, still in the same key, is a _gigue_, thus keeping well in the shadow of the suite.

Marpurg, in his description of various kinds of pieces in his _Clavierstücke_, published at Berlin in 1762, says: "Sonatas are pieces in three or four movements, marked merely _Allegro_, _Adagio_, _Presto_, etc., although in character they may be really an _Allemande_, _Courante_, and _Gigue_." Corelli, as will be mentioned later on, gave dance titles in addition to Allegro, Adagio, etc.