Of Time, Measure, or Cadence.
There are three sorts of
Time
in
Dancing, viz. Common Time, Triple Time,
and
Quadruple Time.
Common Time, is used in Gavots, Galliards, Bouree’s, Rigandons, Jiggs, and Canaries.
Triple Time, is made use of in Courants, Sarabands, Chaconnes, Passacailes, Minuets, and Passe-Pieds.
And Quadruple Time, is made use of in slow Tunes, as appears by the second Tune in the following Plate, and the Tunes called Loures.