Courante

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Courante is a lively Baroque dance in triple meter, commonly used as a standard movement in instrumental suites by composers such as J.S. Bach.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Courante canonical 1
French courante 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque dance
dance form
musical genre
appearsIn Bach English Suites
French Suites
surface form: Bach French Suites

Bach Partitas
surface form: Bach Partitas for keyboard
associatedCountry France
Italy
characteristicFeature contrasting sections
frequent metric shifts between 3/2 and 6/4
hemiola rhythms
ornamented melodic lines
running step patterns
commonForm binary form
rounded binary form
composedBy Arcangelo Corelli
Domenico Scarlatti
François Couperin
George Frideric Handel
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Johann Sebastian Bach
danceType court dance
partner dance
etymology derived from French verb "courir" meaning "to run"
follows Allemande
FrenchCouranteCharacteristic slower and more rhythmically complex
hasVariant Courante self-linksurface differs
surface form: French courante

Italian corrente
historicalPredecessorOf later instrumental dance movements
influenced Baroque instrumental style
ItalianCorrenteCharacteristic faster and more flowing
languageOfName French
musicalPeriod Baroque
surface form: Baroque era
partOf Orchestral suites (Bach)
surface form: Baroque dance suite

chamber music suites
keyboard suites
orchestral suites
performancePractice often includes improvised ornamentation
played with light, articulated bowing on string instruments
tempo and character differ between French and Italian types
precedes Sarabande
timeSignature 3/2
3/4
6/4
typicalKey same key as surrounding suite movements
typicalMeter triple meter
typicalTempo lively
typicalTexture contrapuntal
imitative
usedAs movement in instrumental suites
standard movement in Baroque dance suites

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cello Suites movementType Courante
Courante hasVariant Courante self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: French courante