| Term | Definition |
|---|
| medieval category of soft instruments, used principally for indoor occasions. eg. recorder, lute, rebec, vielle | Bas |
| medieval category of loud instruments, used mainly for outdoor occasions: Shawm, Cornetto, crumhorn, sackbut, nakers, tabor | Haut |
| Viols, viola da gamba | Stringed |
| a collection of dances published in Antwep, contained pavances, galliards, basses danses, as well as allemandes, rondes and branles. | Danserye |
| german dance in moderate duple time, popular druing renaissance and baroque periods | Allemande |
| french baroque dance, a standard movement of the suite | courante |
| stately spanish baroque dance type in triple meter | sarabande |
| popular english baroque dance type, a standard movement of baroque suite in a lively compound meter | gigue |
| dance in triple time. orginated as french rustic dance and adapted by the court in 17th century. one of the optional movements of the suite | menuet |
| lively french baroque dance type in triple meter | bourree |
| duple meter baroque dance type of a pastoral character | gavotte |
| one of additional movements of Baroque suite | air |
| two part (AB) form with each section normally repeated | binary form |
| multimovement work made up of a series of contrasting dance movements, generally all in same key | Ordre |
| variation of a dance in French keyboard suite | Double |
| same as embellishment. Melodic decoration, either improvised or indicated through ornamentation signs in the music | Ornamentation |
| a vivacious allegro molto or Presto | fourth movement |
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