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  • n  music composed for dancing the saraband
  • n  a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time

  • On through the day, Lyndon and Lady Bird moved, almost ritualistically, as in a stately saraband.
  • A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbs and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record.
  • A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked? A saraband starts up, accompanied by a simulated harpsichord: Are the ghosts of vanished dancers being .

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