Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lively Italian dance in 3/4 or 6/8 time, characterized by a leap in every measure.
- noun The music for this dance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: In old dances generally, a second section or part, usually danced as a round dance, the music being in triple rhythm. Saltarelli were appended to all sorts of dances, most of them being contre-dances.
- noun A very animated Italian and Spanish dance for a single couple, characterized by numerous sudden skips or jumps.
- noun Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is triple and quick, and marked by abrupt breaks and skips and the rhythmic figure .
- noun In medieval counterpoint, when the cantus firmus is accompanied by a counterpoint in sextuplets, it was sometimes said to be in saltarello. Compare
salteretto . - noun In harpsichord-making, same as
jack , 11 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lively medieval Italian dance with aleaping step.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Not everything was high drama, though, and the lilting dance rhythms of the Romanza and the saltarello of the finale had a warm and, by now, rather welcome, exuberance.
Royal String Quartet 2010
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A basse-dance, a tourdion, a saltarello; bransles in sets of threes, and allemandes.
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This cheered my heart so much, I danced a saltarello all the way to the bottom of the stairs and ran breathless into the great hall.
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How I wish I could see them dance the saltarello again!
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Though she was really tired with the exertions of the day, the sight of the new tambourine, after supper, proved too tempting; and she was soon practising the saltarello again, with an agility almost equal to that of the nimble
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Sometimes rapid thumps on the tambourine might be heard, indicating that the saltarello was again in rehearsal.
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The saltarello enchants me; in this is really the Italian wine, the Italian sun.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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The _saltarello_ enchants me; in this is really the Italian wine, the Italian sun.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Margaret Fuller 1830
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These he applied with more zeal than precision, just as an American composer might indiscriminately swap a Sicilian tarantella for a Romagnan saltarello.
NYT > Home Page By CORI ELLISON 2010
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_saltarello_, and perhaps might have done so if we had been in less princely presences.
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