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Answer for the clue "Bach-era dance ", 5 letters:
gigue

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Word definitions for gigue in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gigue \Gigue\ (zh[-e]g), n. [F.] A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period).

Usage examples of gigue.

Heer Pruyn makes a motion to the lead violinist of the small orchestra, and a vivid gigue is struck up.

Bach suite and then a gigue, before striking into the air of Greensleeves.

Eric joined the stream of humanity descending the steps into the subway, whistling a Bach gigue to purge his brain of any remaining taint of irritation with Professor Levoisier.

Nocturne of the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, the Gavotte of the Yellow Ladies, the Gigue of the Mill, the Prelude of the Drops of Water, and so on.

Arietta by Antonio Salieri, then she played a Toccata by Leonardo Leo, a Gavotte by Rameau, a Gigue by Sebastian Bach.

This so pleased them that they made varied sounds of greeting, whereupon she started playing in dainty fashion a Mozart gigue which had floated up the river from New Orleans.

He seems quite content to play the same little gigues and minuets as a decade ago.

It gave way to the Allemande, then to the Courante and Sarabande, then to a pair of Gavottes, and then finally to the Gigue.

And just then, out there, like Hounds let loose, the church bells of America all begin to toll, peculiarly lucid in the fog, a dense Carillon, tun'd so exotically, they might be playing anything, Methodist hymns, Opera-hall Airs, jigs and gigues, work songs of sailors, Italian serenades, British Ballads, American Marches.