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Lively Italian dance with a hop step
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saltarello
Word definitions for saltarello in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The saltarello is a musical dance form originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987 , a fourteenth-century manuscript probably of Tuscan origin, now in the British Library . It was played in a fast triple meter and is named for its ...
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n. A lively medieval Italian dance with a leaping step.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saltarello \Sal`ta*rel"lo\, n. [It., fr. L. saltare to jump.] A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella .
Usage examples of saltarello.
The band now played a saltarello, and she danced it on Bubbles's back, and Florian cried, "Innig Italien!