Sarabande

I really like this Pentangle group from the Lai du Cor post below.

The most famous piece called "Sarabande" in the West is probably Händel's, although Bach did one as well.

The Western baroque forms are derivative of another form, the traditional zarabanda dance.

The Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana thought it indecent, describing it in his Tratato contra los juegos públicos (Treatise Against Public Amusements, 1609) as "a dance and song so loose in its words and so ugly in its motions that it is enough to excite bad emotions in even very decent people". A character in an entremés by Cervantes alluded to the dance's notoriety by saying that hell was its "birthplace and breeding place" (in Spanish: origen y principio).It was banned in Spain in 1583 but was nevertheless still performed and frequently cited in literature of the period (for instance, by Lope de Vega).

 So in other words, a very good dance. Festive, one imagines.