canaries

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canaries (or canarie, or canary). Old dance in rhythm something like gigue but with all its phrases beginning on first beat of the measure with a note a beat and a half long. So called in 17th cent. because it imitated Canary Is. rituals.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE

Serinus

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Serinus (canaries, seedeaters) See FRINGILLIDAE.

A Dictionary of Zoology MICHAEL ALLABY

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