cibell
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Noun
cibell (plural cibells)
- (historical) a gavotte-like musical piece in duple metre, predominantly heard in Baroque music.
- 2007, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789, Pendragon Press, page 198:
- The cibell was the English name for a duple meter tune beginning and ending at the half bar, as in the gavotte. It derived from the "Descente de Cybelle" in Lully's operat Atys (1676) […]
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.