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	Le Nozze di Figaro: A multimedia presentation
		The use of contradanse is particularly clever on Mozart’s part.
		In the aristocratic society of the Count, the minuet stood alone as a dignified dance.
		However, in middle-class dance halls, the contradanse often followed the minuet.
	amy.music.udel.edu /budclark/Le_Nozze-103_files/slide0173.htm (93 words)

	Karen's Games
		A contradanse is a dance in which couples face across a long row, with men on one side and women on the other.
		The opening setup for Chess Contradanse is exactly the same as the setup for an ordinary game of chess, except that the pawns are not included.
		The goal of the game is to move all the pieces to the opposite side of the board without ever putting any piece in a position where it is in danger of capture.
	www.angelfire.com /my/zelime/games.html (2957 words)

	Charanga: Then and Now Latin Beat Magazine - Find Articles
		The Cuban Charanga, an orchestra of piano, strings, vocals, flute and percussion is traced to the Charanga Francese.
		Originating in France, this chamber music ensemble of strings and flute was characterized by a repertoire of minuets, waltzes and contradanses and would perform for the parties and grand balls of the elite.
		In 1803, the French contradanse began its evolution with the composition San Pascual Bailón.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_10_9/ai_58317370 (1002 words)

	Review/Dance; Dancing Never Stops In Celebrating Mozart, Even for Intermission - New York Times
		Wendy Hilton reconstructed an 18th-century "Menuet," danced graciously by Luciana Porta and Ricardo Iazzetta, and a "Contradanse" for three couples.
		The waltz was an outgrowth of the 18th-century contradanse, and Ms.
		Aldrich based her version on instructions in a dance manual of 1816, for which the accompaniment was Mozart's German Dances in B-flat major, "Landlerische" (K. All these reconstructions helped bring a vanished era alive.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFD9123AF932A25752C1A967958260 (536 words)

	Charanga:Then and Now
		Originating in France, this chamber music ensemble, consisting of strings and flute was characterized by a repertoire of minuets, waltzes and contradanses, and would perform for the parties and grand balls of the elite.
		In 1789 a contingent of Haitians, many of whom were of both French and African descent, relocated to the city of Santiago de Cuba and took their music and instruments with them.
		In 1803 the French contradanse began its evolution with the composition "San Pascual Bailon," The contradanse underwent stages of evolution until 1877, when Miguel Failde-Pérez created the danzón rhythm.
	www.lafi.org /magazine/articles/charanga.html (1347 words)

	19th Century Social Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was the age of the Empire fashions and Beau Brummell.
		The favorite new dance of 1815 was the Quadrille, created from older French Contradanse and Cotillon figures.
		The Quadrille was performed with a wide variety of rapid, skimming steps, such as the chassé, jeté assemblé and entrechats.
	dance.stanford.edu /syllabi/19th_century.htm (573 words)

	Danzon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Danzón evolved from the form of contradanse that arrived on Saint Dominque in what is now modern day Haiti on the island of Hispañiola.
		Civil unrest rose from the treatment of Spanish slaves compared to the treatment of French slaves.
		Each charanga consists of a rhythm section, strings and a flute.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall04/Smith/danzon.htm (225 words)

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