. Programme. estra of two or three violins. Sometimes the music?is furnished by a bagpipe or guitar. The ball is opened by a man who, taking his cap in hand, bowslow to the woman; she then rises noisily and dances with all her might, the couple holding each otherby means of a handkerchief. After a time the man makes another profound bow and sits down, whilethe woman continues pirouetting by herself; then she walks round the room and chooses a partner,and so it goes on, man and woman alternately dancing and choosing. The married couples dance bythemselves, until toward the end of the evening, w
. Programme. estra of two or three violins. Sometimes the music?is furnished by a bagpipe or guitar. The ball is opened by a man who, taking his cap in hand, bowslow to the woman; she then rises noisily and dances with all her might, the couple holding each otherby means of a handkerchief. After a time the man makes another profound bow and sits down, whilethe woman continues pirouetting by herself; then she walks round the room and chooses a partner,and so it goes on, man and woman alternately dancing and choosing. The married couples dance bythemselves, until toward the end of the evening, when they all dance together. It has also beendescribed as a sort of passe-pied danced to a lively measure of 6-8. A dancing master, GawHkoaki,about 1850, in Paris, gave the name of this dance to a form of waltz, and the dance was in fashionfor a year or two. Walther, in his Music Lexicon (Leipsic, 1732), classed Siciliana as a Canzonetta:The Sicilian Canzonetten are after the manner of a gigue, 12-8 or €haniiler^aio Tremont Street —Near West
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