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A French theatre dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, frequently used as an entrée. Sometimes described as a slow gigue, it is usually in 3/4 or 6/4; characteristic rhythms include dotted figures, syncopations, hemiolas and a quaver/eighth-note-crotchet/quarter-note or crotchet/quarter-note-minim/half-note upbeat. There are stylized loures in Bach's French Suite no.5 for keyboard and Partita in E for violin. (It should not be confused with the bowstroke louré, an articulated slur.)
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The loure, also known as the gigue lente or 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).
The loure is a dance of slow or moderate tempo and in ternary meter (6/8, 3/4, or 6/4). The weight is on beat 1, which is further strengthened by the preceding anacrusis that begins the traditional loure.
In his Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732), Johann Gottfried Walthers wrote that the loure "is slow and ceremonious; the first note of each half-measure is dotted which should be well observed"[1].
Examples of loures are found in the works of Lully (e.g., Alceste) and of Bach (e.g.: French Suite No. 5[2] and the Partita No. 3 for violin solo).
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