what is a gigue
The gigue (/ÊiËÉ¡/ ; [ÊiÉ¡]) or giga (. [ËdÊiËÉ¡a]) is a lively baroque dance originating from the British jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century and usually appears at the end of a suite.The gigue was probably never a court dance, but it was danced by nobility on social occasions and several court composers wrote gigues. gigue, like other Baroque dances, consists of two sections. In Bach's gigues, each section often begins as a fugue, in which the theme used in the first section is inverted in the second section, as for example in the gigue from Bach's third English Suite. Another gigue rhythm.