Do You Know What A “Saraband” Is? It is A Puzzler
What is a “Saraband”? Stewart Granger’s latest picture, “Saraband 'For Dead Lovers,” is providing, filmgoers with a puzzle to which few know the answer. The new dictionaries that mention the Saraband refer to it as a stately Spanish dance. In actual fact, it has made its appearance in various guises a* - regular intervals during the last 450 years. It from the East about 1500 A.D. and entered Spain with * the Moors. It made its debut as' a guitar • tune knowin as “La Folia of Les F®lies dTSspagne.” From its original grave and dignified style is ap- . patently emerged as a song and idance q£ wild characters, “so loose 'in its words” according to a six- ' teenttt eentmry treatise “that it is 'enough to excite bad emotions in 'even decent people,” It was bafcmed •.by Kip® Philip of Spain. When, it reappeared in Europe it ' was in its present sober guise as the slo.w movement in the classical ss&ites «f Handel, Purcell and Bach.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 52, 11 February 1949, Page 3
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