The French courante was more elegant and stately than its Italian counterpart. |
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It was once known as vin de consommation courante or, less formally, vin ordinaire. |
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The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants. |
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As such courtly French dances as the allemande and courante eventually overtook the pavan and galliard in popularity, so they were assimilated into the suite. |
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It supplies descriptions of numerous dances, including the galliarde, volte, and courante, plus musical notation, with the steps and positions clearly defined. |
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Examples of dances include the French courante, sarabande, minuet and gigue. |
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These melodies were built from short, cadentially delimited ideas often based on stylized dance patterns drawn from the sarabande or the courante. |
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