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The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the sound of the instrument of the same name (a type of '' musette''). It is of slow or moderate tempo, sometimes in simple triple meter but more often in compound duple meter. The weight is on the first beat, a characteristic emphasised by the preceding anacrusis, which begins the traditional loure. Another feature is the lilting dotted rhythm. In his ''Musicalisches Lexicon'' (Leipzig, 1732), Johann Gottfried Walther wrote that the loure "is slow and ceremonious; the first note of each half-measure is dotted which should be well observed". Examples of loures are found in the works of Lully (e.g., '' Alceste''), Rameau (e.g. Les Indes galantes) and of Bach (e.g.: ''French Suite'' No. 5N. B., however, that in the Bach-Gesellschaft edition of Bach, reprinted by Dover, the Loure is incorrectly called "Bourée II." and the Partita No. 3 for violin solo).


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Bach's Partita No. 3 in E major played by Hilary Hahn
at youtube.com

* Baroque dance Baroque music Dance forms in classical music French dances {{dance-stub