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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1country-dance
2country-dance
3A rustic dance of English origin, popular from the earliest date until comparatively recent times and known in France as the contredanse and in Italy as the coranto. One peculiarity of this dance is that its music is not limited to any special accent or time beat, so long as the strains are in four or eight measure phrases to accompany the several movements of the dance. It was customary to use some popular ballad tune to dance to, and many of these survive today, among them being the book of tunes called The Dancing Master, first issued by John Playford in 1651. This dance is quite similar to the Virginia Reel, the dancers facing each other in two lines, the ladies in one and all the gentlemen in the other. In the first part of the dance all advance, then retreat, cross to opposite places, advance and retreat, then recross to their original places. Then the lady standing at the head and the gentleman standing at the foot advance toward each other and return to their places. The gentleman at the head and the lady at the foot do the same. The first named couple advance, swing by the right hands and return to their places, a figure repeated by the other couple. The lady at the head then advances and gives her hand to her opposite partner, then after passing behind the two gentlemen who stand next to him, gives him her left hand, he having meanwhile passed behind the two ladies standing beside his partner's place. The lady passes behind the two ladies next in line and her partner behind the two gentlemen, and so on down the line. At the foot the lady gives her left hand to her partner and they promenade back to their places, then the lady turns to the right and the gentleman to the left, each followed by their own line. Meeting at the foot they join hands and allow the others to pass under the arch formed by their arms until all have passed and they are the foot couple. This is repeated until they arrive at their original places.
4coup (koo) Fr. n.
5A blow, a stroke: as used in coup d'archet, a stroke of the bow.
6coup d'archet (koo dahr-shah') Fr.
7A stroke of the bow: a way of using the violin bow.
9courtaud
10coup de baguette (koo du ba-gyet') Fr.
11A beat of the drum.
12coup de glotte (koo du glot') Fr.
13Blow or stroke of the glottis: the sudden approximation of the vocal chords, by which is produced a sudden, clear tone in singing.
14coup de langue (koo du lang') Fr.
15Stroke of the tongue: in wind instrument playing the use of the tongue to produce certain effects of tone.
16couper le sujet (koo-pa luh su-zha') Fr.
17To cut the subject: to abbreviate or cut short a musical subject or theme.
18coupler
19From the French verb, coupler, to unite. A mechanical contrivance which connects two organ keyboards or a keyboard and a pedal-board, so that when one is played upon the corresponding keys or pedals of the other are simultaneously depressed and the tone is augmented.
20coupler, octave
21A mechanical contrivance in an organ which connects keys which are an octave apart.
22coupler, pedal
23A device for coupling one or more of the manuals or keyboards of an organ by means of pedals.
24couplet
251. In poetry two successive lines forming a sentence, and generally rhymed.
262. In music the verse of a song.
273. In triple time the name given to two equal notes sounded in the time given to three notes in the regular rhythm of the piece.
28courante
29See either.
30courante (koo-rant') Fr. n.
31An old dance: in the old French dance suite the second part after the allemande. See also coranto.
32couronne (koo-run') Fr. n.
33A crown: the name of a musical symbol that lengthens the time of the note or rest over which it is placed beyond the natural value or at pleasure of the performer. Equivalent of corona.
34course
35A group or set of strings tuned in unison.
36courtal (koor-tal) Fr. n.
37courtaud (koor-to') Fr. n.
38From the adjective court, meaning short and thick. An obsolete instru-
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