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galliard  This galliard by Byrd opens with a melody related to the pavane also shown here. | Spirited 16th-century court dance in triple time, originating from Lombardy, Italy. It was a very athletic dance, full of complicated steps, mainly performed by couples and popular in the court of Elizabeth I of England. It became increasingly lascivious in the 17th century. The music for the galliard consists of compound duple time (6/8) with bars of simple triple time (3/4) intermingled to upset the pulse. The galliard is often coupled to a pavane, of contrasting common time (4/4). |
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Brade, William
Byrd, William
cinquepace
dance
gagliarda
gaillarde
Galliard, Johann Ernst
Ghro, Johann
Gibbons, Orlando
| Holborne, Anthony
Maynard, John
Nachtanz
pavane
Philips, Peter
Pinnock, Trevor
Scheidt, Samuel
Staden, Johann
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| A landsman could hardly have worn this garb and shown this face, and worn and shown them both with such a galliard air, without undergoing stern question before a magistrate, and probably incurring a fine or imprisonment, or perhaps an exhibition in the stocks. `That is your business, old swine's-head,' cried the black galliard. Nay, if there be any, that would reign and take up all the time, let him find means to take them off, and to bring others on; as musicians use to do, with those that dance too long galliards. |
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