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Definition of Saltarello
1. n. A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
Definition of Saltarello
1. Noun. A lively medieval Italian dance with a leaping step. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Saltarello
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Saltarello
Literary usage of Saltarello
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Museum of Painting and Sculpture: Or, Collection of the Principal Pictures by Etienne Achille Réveil, Jean Duchesne (1830)
"If one of the dancers feels tired, it is allowable to mix in the crowd and the
place is taken fay another who continues the saltarello, which lasts ..."
2. The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof: A Report of the Austro by G. L. Faber (1883)
"... sometimes longer, and the fish either enter by chance, or are driven towards
it by striking on the water. The saltarello (at Naples called ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The saltarello, or Proportio. was always founded on the air of the first part of
the dance, played in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat of ..."
4. Complete Musical Analysis: A System Designed to Cultivate the Art of by Alfred John Goodrich (1889)
"2. Raff, saltarello, Op. 108. Satter, saltarello, Op. 147. Mills, saltarello.
CZARDAS. Liszt, Two Czardas, ^4-minor and /?-minor. ..."
5. The Standard Symphonies: Their History, Their Music, and Their Composers; a by George Putnam Upton (1888)
"The movement is a saltarello, a favorite dance rhythm in Italy, ... Soon the
saltarello returns again, however, this time with a fresh accompaniment. ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"ancient custom of taking off the helmet when no danger is nigh. A man takes off
his hat to show that he dares stand unarmed in your presence. saltarello ..."
7. Popular Customs, Sports and Recollections of the South of Italy by Charles MacFarlane (1846)
"IL saltarello. THE Roman citizens, I CITTADINI ROMANI (we could never use the
term or hear it applied at Rome without a melancholy smile, and a recollection ..."
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