sardanan.
A popular Catalan dance performed to pipes and drum.
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1922 Glasgow Herald 28 Apr. 8 The music played by amateur orchestras, even in small villages, to the Sardanas or national Catalonian dances is delightful.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 172 The Catalan sardanas..have added to their primitive basis sophisticated and foreign elements.
1953 Observer 13 Sept. 9/2 To describe the new local dance, the Sardana from Spanish Catalonia, Mr. O'Brian has essayed a poetic prose.
1965 Listener 10 June 877/3 Spain retains small keyless shawms..and also has modern keyed forms in the sardana bands of Catalonia.
1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 40/3 The Catalonian coblas of north-eastern Spain which play for the sardana, the ‘national’ dance of the region.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1922- by the foot run
- by the force of
- by the full
- by the grace of god
- by the great
- by the great horn spoon
- by the ground
- by the half
- by the half blood
- by the halves
- by the hand
- by the hand of
- by the hands of
- by the hard
- by the head
- by the head and ears
- by the head and shoulders
- by the heels
- by the hokey
- by the hokey fiddle
- by the holy poker
- by the holy rood
- by the horn spoon
- by the job
- by the last