Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Venetian dance.
- noun Music written for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is sextuple and quick. Also
furlano .
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Examples
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Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
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M. de Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career Giacomo Casanova 1761
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M. de Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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If Irene had struck me in dancing the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of my superiority in age?
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan Giacomo Casanova 1761
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If Irene had struck me in dancing the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of my superiority in age?
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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'forlana' so well at the ball, and I resolved to pay her a visit.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan Giacomo Casanova 1761
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'forlana' so well at the ball, and I resolved to pay her a visit.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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The Sonata echoes jazz in another way, though, in that the material Carter is putting through his favored paces is often quasi-vernacular, rather than newly-invented — for example, the forlana rhythm that permeates the third movement — and we're more conscious of the manipulations, like an improvisation over familiar changes.
Magna Carter (5): Role modeling Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The Sonata echoes jazz in another way, though, in that the material Carter is putting through his favored paces is often quasi-vernacular, rather than newly-invented — for example, the forlana rhythm that permeates the third movement — and we're more conscious of the manipulations, like an improvisation over familiar changes.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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I was astounded, for I had never seen anyone, even in Venice, dance the forlana so splendidly.
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