contredanse

Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.

This leads into the final number, a contredanse, the French version of English country dancing.

The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.

Two contredanse movements with idiosyncratic rhythms and instrumental colorings — and exuberant foot stomping — revealed an unexpected kinship with the contemporary piece by Mr. Andres.

Less than a month after mid-summer, the hour was not so much into morning, and there were some tireless votaries of Terpsichore inclined for still another contredanse, by way of wind up.