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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PASSEPIED

From French: pass the foot.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PASSEPIED

passepied  [pɑːsˈpjeɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASSEPIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Passepied is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PASSEPIED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Passepied

The passepied is a French court dance and instrumental form of the 16th to 18th centuries, found frequently in French Baroque opera and ballet, particularly in pastoral scenes. In the mid- and late Baroque, it was used also in orchestral and keyboard suites, where passepieds usually occurred in pairs, with the first reappearing after the second, as a da capo. The music is an example of a dance movement in Baroque music with a fast tempo and a time signature of 3 8 or 6 8, occasionally 3 4, each section beginning with an upbeat. Passepieds occasionally appear in suites such as Handel's Water Music or J.S. Bach's Overture in the French Style for harpsichord where there are two Passepieds in minor and major keys respectively, to be played alternativement in the order I, II, I. The earliest historical mention of the passepied was by Noël du Fail in 1548, who said it was common at Breton courts. François Rabelais and Thoinot Arbeau, writing later in the 16th century, confirm the dance as a type of branle characteristic of Brittany. At this time, however, it was a fast duple-time dance with three-bar phrases, therefore of the branle simple type.

Definition of passepied in the English dictionary

The definition of passepied in the dictionary is a lively minuet of Breton origin, in triple time, popular in the 17th century. Other definition of passepied is a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PASSEPIED


atelier
ˈætəlˌjeɪ
beignet
ˈbɛnjeɪ
cimier
siːˈmjeɪ
conchiglie
kɒnˈkiːljeɪ
cuisinier
kwɪˈziːnjeɪ
douanier
ˈdwɑːnjeɪ
escalier
ˌɛskæˈljeɪ
greffier
ˈɡrɛfjeɪ
hotelier
həʊˈtɛljeɪ
metayer
ˌmɛtəˈjeɪ
Montagnais
ˌmɒntənˈjeɪ
Parmentier
ˈpɑːmənˌtjeɪ
patissier
ˌpɑːtɪˈsjeɪ
perfumier
pəˈfjuːmjeɪ
semainier
səˈmɛnˌjeɪ
sommelier
ˈsʌməlˌjeɪ
sottisier
sɒˈtiːzjeɪ
ukiyo-e
ˌuːkiːjəʊˈjeɪ
yay
jeɪ
yea
jeɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASSEPIED

passenger car
passenger cell
passenger coach
passenger door
passenger enquiries
passenger ferry
passenger jet
passenger list
passenger mile
passenger pigeon
passenger seat
passenger ship
passenger side
passenger station
passenger traffic
passenger train
passer
passer-by
passerine
passers-by

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASSEPIED

canopied
copied
enemy-occupied
espied
occupied
owner-occupied
photocopied
pied
poppied
preoccupied
reoccupied
self-preoccupied
spied
underoccupied
unespied
unoccupied
unpreoccupied
unspied

Synonyms and antonyms of passepied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «passepied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASSEPIED

Find out the translation of passepied to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of passepied from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «passepied» in English.

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帕斯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

passepied
570 millions of speakers

English

passepied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

passepied
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

passepied
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Паспье
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passepied
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

passepied
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passepied
220 millions of speakers

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Sedap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Passepied
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パスピエ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

passepied
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Passepied
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

passepied
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

passepied
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेसपेपिड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

passepied
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

passepied
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Passepied
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пасп´є
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

passepied
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

passepied
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Pass Pied
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Passepied
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

PASSEPIED
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of passepied

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSEPIED»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSEPIED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about passepied

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSEPIED»

Discover the use of passepied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to passepied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach
Writers as late as Turk use words such as "gay" and "cheerful" in connection with the passepied,s probably because of Brossard's influence. Passepied music is often associated with the pastoral tradition, as were the gavotte, bouree, and ...
Meredith Little, Natalie Jenne, 2001
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Passepied
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The passepied (French 'passing feet') is a 17th- and 18th-century dance that originated in Brittany. The term can also be used to describe the music to which a passepied is set.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Piano Works of Claude Debussy
PASSEPIED The “Passepied,” of the four pieces of the suite, is that which is closest to the style of the French clavecinistes. Its tempo, however, is quite distinctly slower than that of the passepied of the seventeenth century, and its time ...
E. Robert Schmitz, 2014
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Bach and the Baroque: European Source Materials from the ...
From this and the importance of horizontal movement in the floor pattern in the passepied ... it seems reasonable that, in the passepied, the plies might be both quicker and slightly shallower than those in the menuet. At the same time, the ...
Anthony Newman, 1995
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Passepied (et Menuet)
Sheet Music: Handel, G. F. (1685-1759) Harpsichord, Piano
‎2004
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Passepied
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The passepied (French [pas pje] 'passing feet') is a 17th- and 18th-century dance that originated in Brittany.
Epimetheus Christer Hiram, 2012
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Masterwork Practice & Performance: Level 3
Getting ready to play A passepied is a happy, spirited dance. Sight-read the right hand melody. Find several adjectives that could fit the mood of the piece. Write in this book the one word that best describes the mood or affect. Play each hand ...
Staff, Alfred Publishing
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Santiago de Murcia's Códice Saldívar no. 4: Commentary:
Helen Meredith Ellis supplies invaluable information concerning the passepied ( and other dances of the time) in her dissertation, "The Dances of J. B. Lully." She states that the passepied was danced to the same basic step as the minuet, but ...
Gabriel Saldívar, Craig H. Russell, 1995
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Bach's Keyboard Music
Instead, the movement has a lovely, swaying motion that makes it resemble a passepied, though it is far longer and more ambitious than that usually brief dance. And its mood—in fact, the mood of the entire suite—seems shaded by ...
Victor Lederer, 2010
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Bach's Well-tempered Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues
Bach has taken this as a prototype and converted it to the metre of a recent type of passepied. This dance, like the gigue, goes back to the beginning of the seventeenth century, but the form that Bach uses was one of the dances popularised by ...
David Ledbetter, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASSEPIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term passepied is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hackers threaten to leak data of 37 million clients of cheating website
Thile brought in the Passepied from Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and they built it into an evocative full-band arrangement. «Yahoo Finance, Jul 15»
2
Sounds Local: Sheryl picks the standouts from this year's Green …
Then there was the band's take on Debussy's “Passepied,” which was nothing short of jaw-dropping. Rock, pop, classical, The Punch Brothers ... «The Recorder, Jul 15»
3
Pianist Symposes Unerroneously
The Passepied was full of beguiling charm—propulsive yet cantabile. In Chopin's famed Twelve Études, Op. 10 (1829-1905) one could easily ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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Ernest Tomlinson: Composer and conductor who bestrode the world …
He submitted his compositions to the BBC, his first broadcast coming with the orchestral piece Passepied in 1949. As the composer of tuneful ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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Ernest Tomlinson, light orchestral composer - obituary
... and the first broadcast of one of his compositions took place while they were honeymooning in the Lake District in 1949: it was Passepied, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Passepied, Quruli Perform Rin-ne Anime's New Theme Songs
NHK's official website for the Kyōkai no Rinne television anime announced that Passepied (pictured right) will perform the new opening theme ... «Anime News Network, Jun 15»
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A prison employee reportedly confessed to smuggling in power tools …
Thile brought in the Passepied from Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and they built it into an evocative full-band arrangement. «Yahoo Finance UK, Jun 15»
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NY gov.: 2 convicted murderers used power tools to escape
Thile brought in the Passepied from Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and they built it into an evocative full-band arrangement. «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
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Two Japanese music showcases announced in London
On the bill are Moumoon and the CMU approved Passepied. Details here. Then, in July, the previously reported Japan Night project comes to ... «Complete Music Update, Apr 15»
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The Punch Brothers at ACL Live (REVIEW/PHOTOS)
Almost half of the set was made up of covers, and “Passepied,” a piano concerto written by Claude Debussy, was beautifully reinvented for the ... «The Horn, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Passepied [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/passepied>. May 2024 ».
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