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dzܰé
[ boo-rey; French boo-rey ]
noun
- an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
- the music for it.
dzܰé
/ ˈʊəɪ /
noun
- a traditional French dance in fast duple time, resembling a gavotte
- a piece of music composed in the rhythm of this dance
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dzܰé1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dzܰé1
Example Sentences
“That’s your pas de dzܰé, your pas de gavotte.”
Jackson’s moonwalk, for example, “reminds me of a ballerina with a brilliant dzܰé,” he says.
In concert, McCartney has been known to locate the song's melody to a much earlier period in the 1950s, when he and George Harrison, wanting to show off their guitar skills, tried their hand at playing Bach's Bourrée in E Minor.
“How you interpret it, how you feel the rise and fall of it, that’s up to you,” she told a group of students, ages 12 to 17, referring to the back-side-side footwork of a pas de dzܰé, a structured preface to “freestyle snow.”
In a week she learned the jaunty Bourrée from Bach’s Cello Suite No. Three; soon she had developed her own little vibrato.
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