galop

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 238 words | Copyright

galop or galopade. 19th-cent. ballroom round dance in simple duple time, with a change of step, or hop, at the end of every mus. phrase. Koenig's Posthorn Galop f.p. in Eng., 1844. Galops have been included in 20th-cent. Soviet ballets.

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