cinquepace

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cinquepace

A dance of the 16th century in quick 3/4 time and requiring movements in groups of five paces. The name was used both for the galliard following the pavana and for the tordion concluding the basse danse. Shakespeare makes a pun on it in Much Ado about Nothing.

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72-80), of wooing, wedding, and "repentance" to three dances, the lively jig, the sedate measure, and the dizzying, fatal cinquepace, is turned into a sermon against "compulsive and pointless upward mobility" (84).

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