Plural of courante; multiple fast, lively dances in triple meter from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Plural form of French 'courante,' from 'courant' meaning 'running.' Each dance maintains the characteristic running or gliding steps.
When composers wrote 'suites' in the Baroque era, the courante was usually the second movement—think of it as the 'uptempo track' in a classical album!
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