coranto

Historical Examples of coranto

• Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?

  Hazlitt on English Literature

  Jacob Zeitlin

• Then Charles, with ready grace, would begin the coranto, taking a single lady in this dance along the gallery.

  The Wits and Beaux of Society

  Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

• The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Elizabethan dance, like the coranto and lavolta.

  Days of the Discoverers

  L. Lamprey

• I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no Coranto's at such rates.

  The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life

  Anonymous

• Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.

  Shakespeare and Music

  Edward W. Naylor