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Courant vs Courante - What's the difference?

courant | courante |

As nouns the difference between courant and courante

is that courant is a piece of music in triple time while courante is an old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.

As an adjective courant

is represented as running.

courant

English

Etymology 1

Alternative form of (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of music in triple time.
  • A lively dance; a coranto.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Represented as running.
    • a classical lion courant
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    courante

    English

    Noun

  • (en noun) (wikipedia)
  • (music) An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.
  • (music) The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)

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