The sarabande (from Spanish: zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a dance.

Handel took the controversial dance form of the sarabande (banned for its obscenity in some countries) and turned it into one of the baroque period's most popular pieces. A sarabande is a dance that originated in Central America back in the sixteenth century.

A sarabande (spelt sarabanda in Italian), is a dance that was popular in Baroque music in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Composers of the Baroque period often composed a group of several dances. This was called a suite. There was usually an Allemande, a Courante, a Sarabande and a Gigue, in that order, and sometimes two Bourrées as well.

Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots, "Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning)", from her album Eternal Woman (2001). [citation needed] In 2002, the Sarabande was used in …

May 24, 2017 · Here is the Sarabande from American composer Paul Creston’s 1937 Partita for violin, flute, and string orchestra. This music pays homage to the stately character and repeating bass line of the Baroque sarabande while evoking a sense of lamenting nostalgia.

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Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata. The suite was completed and published in 1901. It was premiered on 11 January 1902 at the Salle Érard, played by Ricardo Viñes.

Jan 8, 2015 · One characteristic of the sarabande is that normally the second beat is dotted. In 3/2 the pattern is half, dotted-half, quarter, repeat. Check out some of the early La Folia variations (Vivaldi?).

Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, the predominant musical figure during the transition between the Classical to Romantic eras. He occupies an unprecedented dominance in the history of Western music history, and has been widely regarded as the greatest, most influential and most popular musician who ever lived.

The sarabande form was revived in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by composers such as Debussy and Satie and, in different styles, Vaughan Williams (in Job) and Benjamin Britten (in the Simple Symphony).