The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance in a compoundmetre such as 3/8, 6/8, 6/4, 9/8 or 12/16. Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era in Europe (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theater and opera. ... In music, compound metre or compound time is a time signature or meter in which each beat (or rather, portion, 1/2 or 1/3 of a measure) is divided into three parts, as opposed to two which is simple meter. ... Metre or meter is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ...
As a musical form, gigues frequently occur as movements in larger works such as concertos and sonatas. It was the most common final movement in a baroque suite. It is also usually contrapuntal. In classical music, the word concerto (pl. ... Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, to sound), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. ... It has been suggested that Suite_de_Danses be merged into this article or section. ...
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