Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Allemande

by John Weeks Moore

Allemande. (F.) A slow air, or melody, in common time of four crotchets in a bar. A species of composition supposed, from its name, to be of German origin. We meet with the Allemande in Handel's harpsichord lessons, and other works of about their date ; but as a sonata movement, it is now obsolete. The dance known by the same name is, however, still used in Germany and Switzerland, and is written in common time of two crotchets in a bar.