Definitions for courante
kʊˈrɑntcourante

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1. courantenoun

   a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats

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1. courantenoun

   An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.

2. courantenoun

   The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)

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1. Courante

   The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era. In a Baroque dance suite an Italian or French courante is typically paired with a preceding allemande, making it the second movement of the suite or the third if there is a prelude.

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1. courante

   A courante is a type of old dance popular during the late Renaissance and Baroque era, and the corresponding musical form that accompanied it. Typically in triple meter, the courante originated in France and later spread to Germany and Italy during the 18th century. The term also refers to pieces of music composed in this dance form.

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1. Courante

   The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era. Modern usage will sometimes use the different spellings to distinguish types of courante, but in the original sources spellings were inconsistent. However, in Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach by Meredith Little and Natalie Jenne, the courante and corrente are given separate chapters and treated as distinct dances. The courante had the slowest tempo of all French court dances, and was described by Mattheson, Quantz and Rousseau as grave and majestic. In Bach's unaccompanied Partita for Violin No. 2 the first movement begins as if in 3/4 time in a manner one might initially perform and hear as a courante. The second movement is titled corrente and is rather lively. On the other hand, many "courante" movements by Bach are actually correntes as well: in the original engraving of the keyboard Partitas, movements are clearly labelled either "corrente" or "courante", but editors have frequently ignored the distinction. Although an indication of faster tempo appears to exist in Baroque composer Georg Muffat's instructions on Lullian bowing, his reference to the "rapid tempo of courantes" is a confusion in translation. A more literal translation of the text indicates only "the speed of the movement of the notes."

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Anagrams for courante »

1. outrance

2. cornuate

3. cuneator

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of courante in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of courante in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=courante
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Courante
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courante
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=courante