| The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants. |
| The French courante was more elegant and stately than its Italian counterpart. |
| It was once known as vin de consommation courante or, less formally, vin ordinaire. |
| It was originally a branle of Poitou, derived from the Courante. |
| That thought had been growing, and the gavotte, the courante, the pavane becoming rehearsals. |
| These melodies were built from short, cadentially delimited ideas often based on stylized dance patterns drawn from the sarabande or the courante. |
