Crossword clues for allemande
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allemande \Al"le*mande"\, n. [F., fr. allemand German.]
(Mus.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
A figure in dancing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a German dance, 1775, from French Allemande, fem. of allemand "German" (see Alemanni). As a move in country or square dancing, from 1808.
Wiktionary
n. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
WordNet
n. egg-thickened veloute [syn: allemande sauce]
Wikipedia
An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a renaissance and baroque dance, and one of the most popular instrumental dance styles in baroque music, with notable examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach and Handel. It is often the first movement of a baroque suite of dances, paired with a subsequent courante, though it is sometimes preceded by an introduction or prelude.
A quite different, later, Allemande, named as such in the time of Mozart and Beethoven, still survives in Germany and Switzerland and is a lively triple-time social dance related to the waltz and the ländler.
Usage examples of "allemande".
German profundity and curlicues that people simply failed to note the comical niaiserie allemande involved in such an answer.
By the time Miss Tyler had returned with a tray, Lady Millicent had re-entered the parlor, and the musicians had switched to an allemande, from a suite by Herr Bach, whose sonorities included the sound of a few string instruments.
It gave way to the Allemande, then to the Courante and Sarabande, then to a pair of Gavottes, and then finally to the Gigue.
When the allemande ended, Sir Percy claimed her for a country dance, and Lord Tarlton for the reel after that.
The formal music for the branle and galliard, the charconne and allemande and pavane and the Spanish minuet blew pattering like tinfoil through the peach trees, suffocated by the drawling French of English thoraxes and the polite, beautiful French of the most highly cultured courtiers in the world.