Zarabanda and chacona — two Spanish dances as Covarrubias recorded them in 1611

The two dances European art music kept as the sarabande and the chaconne are described in Spain's first monolingual dictionary while they were still street repertoire. Covarrubias's Tesoro of 1611 gives the zarabanda a full entry, records that the chacona had already displaced it, traces both to the dancing women of Gades and to Martial's Rome, and derives the name from Hebrew. Its two entries disagree about how the chacona is related to the zarabanda.