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allemande
[ al-uh-mand, -mahnd, al-uh-mand, al-uh-mahnd; French aluh-mahnd ]
noun
- a 17th- and 18th-century dance in slow duple time.
- a piece of music based on its rhythm, often following the prelude in the classical suite.
- a figure performed in a quadrille.
- a German folk dance in triple meter, similar to the l盲ndler.
allemande
/ alm蓱虄d; 藞忙l瑟m忙nd /
noun
- the first movement of the classical suite, composed in a moderate tempo in a time signature of four-four
- any of several German dances
- a figure in country dancing or square dancing by means of which couples change position in the set
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of allemande1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of allemande1
Example Sentences
Three groups of square dancers swung through promenades and allemandes 鈥 huffing and sweating to 鈥淔ree Ride鈥 and 鈥淏ad Case of Loving You.鈥
The strains of an orchestra wafted up to us, a slow allemande.
I beefed up my square-dancing vocabulary and moves, adding back in the do-si-do and the allemande.
"I want the Tokyo preludes, the Tokyo gigues, the Tokyo allemandes."
While many of the movements are based on traditional Baroque dance styles, only in the Suite No. 4 does Handel adhere to the typical structure of allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue.
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