In music, the sarabande (It., sarabanda) is a slow dance in triple metre with the distinctive feature that beats 2 and 3 of the measure are often tied, giving a distinctive rhythm of quarter and half notes in alternation. The half notes are said to have corresponded with dragging steps in the dance. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... Triple metre is a musical metre characterised by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with 3/4 and 9/8 being the most common examples. ... For the popular Tamil film, see Rhythm (film). ...

The sarabande is first mentioned in Central America: in 1539, a dance called a zarabanda is mentioned in a poem written in Panama by Fernando Guzmán Mexía.^[1] Apparently the dance became popular in the Spanish colonies before moving back across the Atlantic to Spain. While it was banned in Spain in 1583 for its obscenity, it was frequently cited in literature of the period (for instance in works by Cervantes and Lope de Vega). For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... Events May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. ... 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Cervantes redirects here. ... Lope de Vega Lope de Vega (also Félix Lope de Vega Carpio or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. ...

Later, it became a traditional movement of the suite during the baroque period, for instance in the Bach Cello suites. The baroque sarabande is commonly a slow triple rather than the much faster Spanish original, consistent with the courtly European interpretations of many Latin dances. The sarabande form was revived in the 20th Century by composers such as Debussy, Satie and, in a different style, Vaughan Williams (in Job) and Benjamin Britten (in the Simple Symphony). In music, a suite is an organized set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed at a single sitting, as a separate musical performance, not accompanying an opera, ballet, or theater-piece. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. ... The first page from the manuscript by Anna Magdalena Bach of Suite No. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Claude Debussy, photo by Félix Nadar, 1908. ... Selfportrait of Erik Satie. ... A statue of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dorking. ... Britten redirects here. ...

Perhaps the most famous sarabande is the anonymous La folie espagnole whose melody appears in pieces by dozens of composers from the time of Monteverdi and Corelli through the present day. La Folia is one of the oldest European musical themes. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Monteverdi redirects here. ... Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. ...

Film

Stanley Kubrick, as well as Brian De Palma, prominently featured a sarabande by George Frideric Handel in the soundtrack to their films Barry Lyndon and Redacted respectively. ^[2] Kubrick redirects here. ... Brian De Palma (born Brian Russell DePalma on September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is a controversial American film director, best known for directing the Al Pacino classic Scarface, and the Academy Award-winning The Untouchables. ... “Handel” redirects here. ... Barry Lyndon (1975) is an award-winning period film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray. ... Redacted redirects here. ...

It also has made an appearance on the 2008 HBO Series John Adams, about the life of the second president of the United States. For other persons named John Adams, see John Adams (disambiguation). ...

The sarabande inspired the title of Ingmar Bergman's last film Saraband (2003). In all of Bach's cello suites there is a sarabande, and the film uses the sarabande from his fifth suite. Bergman had used this piece previously in Cries and Whispers (1971). ^[3]   (IPA: in Swedish; usually IPA: in English) (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish film, stage, and opera director. ... For the Baroque dance and its corresponding musical form, see Sarabande. ... “Bach” redirects here. ... Cries and Whispers (original title Viskningar och rop) is a 1973 Swedish film which tells the story of two sisters who watch over their third sisters deathbed, both afraid she might die, but hoping she does. ...

References

1. ^ Richard Hudson: "Sarabande", New Grove Online (subscription access). Retrieved on 2006-11-13.
2. ^ Reel Chill: Cinematic Chillout Album. Retrieved on 2006-02-11.
3. ^ Ingmar Bergman Saraband - Sources of inspiration

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External links

• The Sarabande