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A courante rhythm [1]. The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era.In a Baroque dance suite an Italian or French courante is typically paired with a preceding allemande, making it the second movement of the suite or the third if there is a prelude.
Page from a coranto from 2 December 1620. Corantos were early informational broadsheets and precursors to newspapers.Beginning around the 14th century, a system developed where letters containing news and philosophical discussion were sent to a central collecting point to be bundled and redistributed to various correspondents.
Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France was the first newspaper printed in England.The earliest of the seven known surviving copies is dated 24 September 1621 (although John Chamberlain is on record as having complained about them in August), and the latest is dated 4 November that year.
The Concerts royaux (singular: Concert royal; English: Royal Concerts) are chamber music suites by François Couperin written for the court of Louis XIV.Each consists of a prelude and a succession of dances in the order allemande, sarabande or courante, followed by others – but the suites are intended for listening more than dancing.
Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. ("Current Events from Italy, Germany, etc.") was the first Dutch newspaper. It began appearing in Amsterdam in June 1618 and was a regular weekly publication. The Courante can be called the first broadsheet paper, because it was issued in folio-size .
The cello suites are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue. [2] Gary S. Dalkin of MusicWeb International called Bach's cello suites "among the most profound of all classical music works" [ 3 ] and Wilfrid Mellers described them in 1980 as ...
Except for the ciaccona, [a] the movements are dance types of the time, and they are frequently listed by their French names: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, and Chaconne. The final movement is written in the form of variations, and lasts approximately as long as the first four movements combined.
for 5 voices: Laudibus in sanctis – Magnificum Domini – Hunc arguta; Quis est homo – Diverte a malo; Fac cum servo tuo; Salve Regina – Et Jesum