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Vigorous Spanish castanet dance
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sarabande
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The sarabande (from French sarabande , itself derived from Spanish zarabanda ) is a dance in triple metre .
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a 16th century Spanish dance; the zarabanda 2 a stately Baroque dance in slow triple time 3 the music for this dance
Usage examples of sarabande.
Oh, it strays from its source, sometimes implying the sarabande while straining to leave it, sometimes filling out the step with jarring accidentals.
This constant broadening of technical and emotional contrast must have taken Ressler years to train for: each variation is so arranged to throw off the spell of the previous, and before the ear has time enough to savor any crystallization of mood, a reaction at once pitches the listener into new tempi, meters, and melodic figures probing radically opposing kernels of feeling, pulling open the full complexity of the piece, the inexhaustible variety extracted from the modest four-by-four-by-four sarabande.