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{{Short description|French baroque dance}}
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[[File:Feuillet notation.jpg|thumb|[[Beauchamp–Feuillet notation|dance notation]] for the first 18 bars of a rigadoon by Isaac, published in ''Orchesography or the Art of Dancing ... an Exact and Just Translation from the French of Monsieur Feuillet''; by John Weaver, Dancing Master. Second edition. Walsh, London, c. 1721.]]
The '''rigaudon''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁiɡodɔ̃, ʁiɡɔdɔ̃|lang}}, {{IPA|oc|riɣawˈðu|lang}}), anglicized as '''rigadon''' or '''rigadoon''', is a French [[baroque dance]] with a lively [[duple metre]].  The music is similar to that of a [[bourrée]], but the rigaudon is rhythmically simpler with regular phrases (eight measure phrases are most common). It originated as a sprightly [[17th-century]] French folk dance for couples. Traditionally, the folkdance was associated with the provinces of [[Vivarais]], [[Languedoc]], [[Dauphiné]], and [[Provence]] in southern France, and it became popular as a court dance during the reign of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].{{r|GroveDict2001_Rigaudon}} Its hopping steps were adopted by the skillful dancers of the French and English courts, where it remained fashionable through the 18th century. By the close of the 18th century, however, it had given way in popularity as a ballroom dance (along with the [[passepied]], [[bourrée]], and [[gigue]]) to the [[minuet]];{{r|CunninghamWoods189596_93}} however, in the 20th century, [[Maurice Ravel]] would employ this baroque dance in his piano suite ''[[Le Tombeau de Couperin]]''.

==Sources==
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<ref name=GroveDict2001_Rigaudon>{{cite book |last=Little |first=Meredith Ellis |date=2001 |chapter=Rigaudon |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley |editor1-link=Stanley Sadie |editor2-last=Tyrrell |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Tyrrell (professor of music) |title=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]] |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780195170672}}</ref>
<ref name=CunninghamWoods189596_93>Cunningham Woods, Francis. 1895–96. "A Brief Survey of the Dances Popular in England during the Eighteenth Century". ''Proceedings of the Musical Association'', 22nd Session:89-109. p. 93.</ref>
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==Further reading==
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*{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Anon.|1851}}|reference=Anon. 1851. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=r2tRAAAAYAAJ&dq=rigadoon&pg=PA39 Rigadoon"]. ''[[Encyclopædia Americana]]'', 1851 edition, edited by [[Francis Lieber]], 39. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea.}}
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Guilcher|1984}}|reference=Guilcher, Jean-Michel. 1984. "Le domaine du rigodon: Une province originale de la danse". ''Le monde alpin et rhodanien'' 12, nos. 1–2 (Chants et danses de tradition): 7–71.}} {{issn|0758-4431}}
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Hammond|1992}}|reference=Hammond, Sandra Noll. 1992. "Steps through Time: Selected Dance Vocabulary of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". ''Dance Research'' 10, no. 2 (Fall): 93–108.}} {{issn|0264-2875}} 
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Mather|1987}}|reference=Mather, Betty Bang. 1987. ''Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. {{ISBN|0-253-31606-5}}.}}
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Mazellier|2003}}|reference=Mazellier, Patrick. 2003. "Feldforschungen in der Dauphiné und im Vivarais und ihre Umsetzung im Musikschulunterricht". In ''Musikpädagogik und Volksmusikforschung: Chancen einer Zusammenarbeit—Symposion zum 70. Geburtstag von Josef Sulz'', edited by [[Thomas Nußbaumer]] and Monika Oebelsberger, 65–87. Innsbrucker Hochschulschriften B: Musikalische Volkskunde, no. 5. Anif-Salzburg: Müller-Speiser. {{ISBN|3-85145-085-X}}.}}

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