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SARABAND (Ital. Sarabanda, Zarabanda; Fr. Sarabande)

SARABAND (Ital. Sarabanda, Zarabanda; Fr. Sarabande) , a slow See also:

dance, generally believed to have been imported from See also:

Spain in the earlier See also:

HALF

half of the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, though attempts have been made to trace it to an Eastern origin. The most probable See also:

account of the word is that the dance was named after Zarabanda, a celebrated dancer of See also:

Seville. During the 16th and 17th centuries the saraband was exceedingly popular in Spain, See also:

France, See also:

Italy and See also:

England. Its See also:

MUSIC

music was in triple See also:

time—generally with three minims in the See also:

bar—and almost always consisted of two strains, each beginning upon the first See also:

BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat, and most frequently ending on the second or third. Many very See also:

FINE

fine examples occur in the Suites and Parlitas of See also:

HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERICK (1685–1759)

Handel and J. S. See also:

Bach; by far the finest is that which Handel first composed for his See also:

OVERTURE (Fr. ouverture, opening)

overture to Almira, and afterwards adapted to the words " Lascia, ch'io pianga," in Rinaldo.

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