- a variation of saraband.
sarabande
Britishnoun
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a decorous 17th-century courtly dance
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music a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance, in slow triple time, often incorporated into the classical suite
Etymology
Origin of sarabande
C17: from French, from Spanish zarabanda, of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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And it led him to loudly exclaim, before playing the sarabande from Bach’s Second Solo Cello Suite in his short solo set, “Who knew?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025
Bach, writes Swed, is having a moment — in new recordings and in a recent Los Angeles Philharmonic concert, where cellist Johannes Moser dedicated a Bach sarabande to Hillary Clinton and Leonard Cohen.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2016
Mr. Ashbery has surely seen the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet “Agon,” in which there are several modernist variants on bygone dances; a sarabande, danced by a male soloist, is one of them.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2015
It's also in love with how Victorian Brits talked, that mellifluous sarabande danced around actual emotion.
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2010
I accepted his arm, and we stepped into the dance, a slow sarabande.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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