Courante
Family of triple metre dances / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Corrente" redirects here. For other uses, see Corrente (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Corante.
The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era. In a Baroque dance suite an Italian or French courante is typically paired with a preceding allemande, making it the second movement of the suite or the third if there is a prelude.