Saraband

In music, a saraband is a distinctive style of dance in triple time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A saraband is a piece of dance music, Italian in origin; and that was a very beautiful composition. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

I his saraband his song partners in sunset silent separate beings in the twilight we circle each other ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then she could hear him resume his walk through the room, and, as if his spirits had been somewhat relieved and elevated by the survey of his wardrobe, she could distinguish that at one turn he half recited a sonnet, at another half whistled a galliard, and at the third hummed a saraband. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So is it any different when a short Leroy Anderson piece that parodies or tries to pay homage to a dance form like the saraband, is that any different, really, than Mozart and would poke fun at the form, or Brahms, or Schubert, or Mahler? ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a fit of desperation, he faced round upon Bruin and lifted his cane; at the sight of which the instinct of discipline prevailed, and the animal, instead of tearing him to pieces, rose up upon his hind-legs and instantly began to shuffle a saraband. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(A saraband is an erotic dance for two dancers, and the name of a movement in Bach's cello suites.) ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the chimney-piece was a mirror in a painted frame, adorned with figures dancing a saraband; on one side hung the glorious pipe, on the other was a Chinese jar in which the musician kept his tobacco. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When our gentlemen entered, the floor was occupied by two females and their gallants, who, in the performance of their exercise, lifted their legs like so many oxen at plough and the pipe of one of those hoppers happening to be exhausted, in the midst of his saraband, he very deliberately drew forth his tobacco-box, filling and lighting it again, without any interruption to the dance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

So I chose to play some music, a saraband from the "Sonata for Violin" alone in D minor. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The saraband ceased in mid-leap and the otter gaped at him in the moonlight. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1987)

Ahead, a lamp set on a wall bracket threw the giant and grotesque shadows of two men on to the wall beyond the stone troughs; the shadows moved, blending and separating in an eerie saraband, with the occasional harsh scrape of metal on metal as the only music. ❋ O'Donnell, P. (1965)

This Francisco had composed a saraband, which either charmed or infatuated every person; for the whole guitarery at court were trying at it; and God knows what an universal strumming there was. ❋ Various (N/A)

Every person was at last completely tired of her saraband, as well as of her face; and the king, that he might see neither of them any more, gave each a small pension for her subsistence. ❋ Various (N/A)

This saraband was at least repeated twenty times: the duke declared it was played to perfection: Lady Chesterfield found fault with the composition; but her husband, who clearly perceived that he was the person played upon, thought it a most detestable piece. ❋ Various (N/A)

The use she was put to, was to dance with Flamarens, and sometimes, towards the conclusion of a ball, possessed of castanets and effrontery, she would dance some figured saraband or other, which amused the court. ❋ Various (N/A)

Elsie rattled out the triple measure of a saraband. ❋ Various (N/A)

XIV. leaped over the _ruelle_ and danced a saraband in his night-gown. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hey [looks] [it’s] [saraband] ❋ Cheesecurd35 (2022)