allemanda

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allemande
{i} slow 17th-century dance; piece of music with a certain rhythm; German folk dance
- - now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel
Processional couple dance with stately flowing steps, fashionable in the 16th century, especially in France. A line of couples extended their paired hands forward and paraded back and forth the length of the ballroom. It was revived in the 18th century as a figure dance for four couples, in which each pair performed intricate turns under each other's arms, a figure that partly survives in the "allemand" of the U.S. square dance. In the late 17th century a stylized version of the dance in 4 4 time began to be used by composers as the first movement of the suite
A figure in dancing
A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV
A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement