Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Aug 27, 2009 10:53
15 yrs ago
French term
chaloupé
French to English
Art/Literary
Music
the term was taken from a press review about the pianist's work for the theater and here is the full sentence:" Les moyens sont toujours simples: un piano parfois "transfiguré"... rarement une clarinette ou un violoncelle, à peine une percussion... un allegretto chaloupé qui donne envie d'embrasser sa voisine ou une soprano qui vocalise avec légèreté et nous avertit d'un danger, nous transmet une douleur indicible."
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | rolling |
David Vaughn
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| 3 +1 | lilting |
Adam Warren
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| 3 | undulating |
ormiston
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Proposed translations
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8 mins
Selected
rolling
or swaying
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Comment: "merci!"
2 hrs
undulating
might sound good here:
undulate – Dictionary definition of undulate | Encyclopedia.com ...
move with a smooth wavelike motion: her body undulated to the thumping rhythm of the music. ∎ [usu. adj.] (undulating) have a wavy form or outline: ...
www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-undulate.html - Cached - SimilarDance Review - New York Flamenco Festival - Happily Undulating ...
16 Feb 2009 ... Happily Undulating, Hand to Foot ... Twenty years ago I heard a flamenco artist state, “Flamenco to taped music is not real flamenco. ...
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/arts/dance/16flam.html - SimilarDancing spirits: rhythms and rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada rite - Google Books Result
by Gerdès Fleurant - 1996 - Music - 209 pages
... the signpost music of the Rada rite, is an undulating music/dance. Therefore, it may not be unusual that the whole complex song/dance/drumming undulate ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0313297185...
undulate – Dictionary definition of undulate | Encyclopedia.com ...
move with a smooth wavelike motion: her body undulated to the thumping rhythm of the music. ∎ [usu. adj.] (undulating) have a wavy form or outline: ...
www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-undulate.html - Cached - SimilarDance Review - New York Flamenco Festival - Happily Undulating ...
16 Feb 2009 ... Happily Undulating, Hand to Foot ... Twenty years ago I heard a flamenco artist state, “Flamenco to taped music is not real flamenco. ...
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/arts/dance/16flam.html - SimilarDancing spirits: rhythms and rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada rite - Google Books Result
by Gerdès Fleurant - 1996 - Music - 209 pages
... the signpost music of the Rada rite, is an undulating music/dance. Therefore, it may not be unusual that the whole complex song/dance/drumming undulate ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0313297185...
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3 hrs
Adam Warren
France
France
Native in English
Works in field
France
Working with words, working with people
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: French to English
lilting
"a lilting gait"; the idea being that the allegretto doesn't move in a monotonously regular rhythm, but sways beguilingly with a suggestion of a lurch (cf. "un pas chaloupé": "a lurching gait") or lilt.
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