I think this (courant/rant) may be just a coincidence of syllables. Though there is a general tendency to use various specific dance-names, like rant, reel, courant, hornpipe and even jig, to mean 'dance', and nothing more. Look at 'The Reel of Harden' in 9/8 for an example....
A lot of Atkinson's bourees and gavottes don't fit the standard baroque definition; modern French bourees can be in 3/8, which certainly doesn't. John ________________________________________ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of Matt Seattle [theborderpi...@googlemail.com] Sent: 12 July 2011 20:19 To: Anthony Robb Cc: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants Yes it got through but with some strange text added (EURYEN every so often). Interesting references Anthony. Do I take it you are identifying the Rant with the Courant(e)? Interesting how one can find diverging etymologies which converge strangely. Cheers Matt -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
