This particular saraband, however, is unique in that it has three sections rather than the two usually found in all Baroque dance movements. |
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The scene is an endless saraband of characters who, with the advent of Night, appear uninhibited and cast off the conventions of Daylight! |
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And yet the slowness of the rhythm as well as the grandiloquence of the main theme rather evokes a saraband. |
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Triumphant over all evil tendencies, the bestial nature of young men, dexterously straddling all kinds of animals, and encircling, in a saucy saraband, naked and seductive women. |
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Sometimes the masters allowed them to borrow frock coats and top hats, which they took brilliant advantage of to caricaturize the lenders in a sort of saraband which evoked the drawing room dances of the period. |
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The theme is a saraband — a slow Baroque dance in triple time — and Sebők demonstrated how to get a magical lilt: you subtly elongate the second beat and shorten the third, in effect playing the third beat slightly late. |
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Time is moving too fast for the political world, and the markets are setting the tempo for this new type of saraband in which an ever-increasing number of participants are taking to the floor. |
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