Cadence also means the way dancers' steps must conform to the mesure stressed by the instrument. Thus music masters beat the menuet with a downbeat at the beginning of each measure, while the dancing master only beats one every two measures, because that is how long it takes to perform the four steps of a menuet. When there is no determined ambiance to the dance, as in contradanses, menuets, allemandes, and so forth, the music should assume and maintain an ambiance that is gay, playful or majestic, in sum, the one deemed the most appropriate for it. This word is used in its strict sense for water and liquids. It means to flow doucement and according to its natural inclination, to spread out doucement .
Dancing consists of knowing how to couler, couper , and make a pirouette.
To cause to slide adroitly, to place gently somewhere or in the middle of something. To cut off with strokes of an ax. Phrases within brackets were added in 1702. There are times when one should not cut sounds short. This notifies both instrumentalists and vocalists that they should not drag or lengthen certain sounds, but cut them off, that is, continue them only as long as needed to make them heard, so that there is a silence between each one, etc.