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rigadoonnoun(dance) A quickstep dance for two people.
tourdionnounA lively dance, similar to a galliard
quadrillenoun(dance) A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
gavottenounA French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.
danzonnounAlternative form of danzón. [(music) A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba, evolved from contradanza.]
saltarellonounA lively medieval Italian dance with a leaping step.
bourréenounA baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century.
tambourinnoun(obsolete) An old lively Provençal dance, common on the stage.
galliardnounA lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
pas de deuxnoun(dance) A dance performed by two dancers.
rondeaunoun(poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
gallopadenounA type of dance, also known as the galop.
orguinettenounAlternative form of organette (“mechanical musical instrument”). [An early mechanical accordion that played music encoded on rolls of perforated paper.]
seguidillanounA lively Spanish dance in triple time.
bordonnounA town in Whitehill parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7935).
rigollnounAn old musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
galopnounA lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
roundelaynoun(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
contredansenounA folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other.
bandonionnounAlternative spelling of bandoneon. [A small Latin American accordion played with buttons which is frequently used in tango ensembles.]

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