Here, a majestic sarabande was worked out, there, a solemn chaconne, elsewhere a subtle musette or a stormy bourrée. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Returning to her strengths, Uchida offered the sarabande from Bach's French Suite in G as an encore, its simple outlines traced with hushed reverence, nothing more than a vaporous shimmer. From Wordnik.com. [Mitsuko Uchida at the Music Center at Strathmore] Reference
With exquisite balance in the sarabande, a sustained ecstatic melancholy in the andante religioso, and light but earthy folkiness in the finale, this was a compelling account of Grieg's evocative retro masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Norwegian CO] Reference
As for the dancing, in that crowded room owing to the space monopolised by the prodigious hoops and the general exhilaration, the stately minuet and sarabande were out of the question, and the jig and country dance were much more in favour. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
I Fall scimmiottano un po 'se stessi, e non tutto splende, ma cio ` che splende e ` degno del repertorio migliore: altre esaltate danze voodoo (Jerusalem), altre solenni sarabande (Kurious Oranj) altri marziali proclami (New Big Prinz) e persino un bluesrock sincopato alla Rolling Stones. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*] Reference
With smiling face and merry jest she danced the sarabande. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
There is a quaint sarabande, and a gavotte written on simple lines, but superbly. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
After many recalls, she gave, as an encore, a rousing performance of a Bach sarabande. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]
An album -- as a concept -- had joined the ranks of the sarabande and eight-track cassette as a musical notion whose era had passed. From Wordnik.com. [Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog] Reference
His keyboard suites will be published in 1693, arranged in the order that will become standard: allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. From Wordnik.com. [Public marks] Reference
The second movement is usually a fugal allegro, and the third and fourth movements are binary forms that occasionally resemble the dances the sarabande and gigue. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Each is a microcosm of the musical compositions of their respective eras, including dance forms (sarabande, minuet), character pieces and a variety of musical techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Stories: Local News] Reference
After the intermission, Ma concluded with the sixth suite, as intense as an Aeschylan tragedy, with climaxes at the slow allemande and the even slower, deeper, more intense sarabande. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
Bishkof and Suggs will be joined by cellist Gerall Heiser in this collection of five dances, which includes -- in addition to classics such as a minuet, waltz, and sarabande -- jitterbug!. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The boiled leg of mutton shook its collops of fat at a couple of fowls which figured in a sarabande round and round their own dish, -- roast beef shifted about with a slow and stately movement -- a ham. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
Kieran thought of himself, lying frozen and dead in a graveyard that was space, bodies drifting in orbit, circling slowly around each other as the years passed, in a macabre sarabande -- A deep shiver shook him. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars, My Brothers] Reference
We danced country dances first, as I have said; and then my Cousin Dolly shewed us one or two town dances, and I danced a sarabande in her company; but then as the rest of the folk liked the country dances the best, we went back to these. From Wordnik.com. [Oddsfish!] Reference
Inspired by 17th century French court dances like the sarabande or the branle, Stravinsky's score - developed in close collaboration with Balanchine back in 1957 - comes in brief vignettes, so although Savage's version comes in 16 sections, it doesn't feel overlong. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
But if he could not understand the music, he could read books about it; he read a whole library -- criticism of music, analysis of music, histories of music, composers of music; and so gradually he learned the difference between a sarabande and a symphony, and began to get some idea of what he went out for to hear. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Pilgrimage] Reference
"Of the four that loosely corresponded to the four essential movements - allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue - I expanded two of them, the courante and the gigue (Foot Locker and The Wren, respectively, on the disc), by adding a middle section and a recap at the end for both. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
He added lyrics to a Bach cello sarabande. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Strawberry sarabande 123. From Wordnik.com. [Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.] Reference
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