Peter Obviously I meant tempo - four time-units in one bar of the Pavan is similar to the three time-units in one bar of the Galliard. This gives an impression that the pulse keeps almost unchanged in triple time. However the steps of the Galliard are much more vigorous. It depends on the dancers, but some of them may show big virtuosity in elaborating their display. We can't give exact metronomic values to denote Galliard's tempo because it varied depending on time and country, but the proportions between Pavan and Galliard remained almost the same. As I said before I doubt very much if Dowland's Galliards served anybody for dancing ever. And for the same reason the proportion between his Pavan and Galliard doesn't need to be observed so rigorously. These were purely instrumental pieces. The dance form remake was popularly used in the history of music. The music literature abounds with such examples up to our times. For instance nobody would dance Chopin Mazurkas. But earlier writers mentioned similar practices. Ch. Burney in "Music in Germany", London,1773, p.162 writes:
"The Polish nobleman would gladly give me a specimen of the violin music of his country, as it depended so much on the coup d'archet, that seeing it on paper, without hearing it performed, would afford but a very imperfect idea of it. The Pole added that the kind of music which we call Polonaise, is played quicker for dancing than at other times" Best regards Jaroslaw _____ From: Peter Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:40 AM To: Jaros'aw Lipski Cc: Lute Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Playing in time Do you really mean this? Dowland galliards played at the same pulse as his pavans are going to seem VERY slow. P On 04/02/2008, Jaros'aw Lipski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, back to Melancholy Galliard. There is a misconception concerning this dance saying that when it goes with its pair - Pavan- the later is slow and the former brisk and rapid. In fact the pulse of both is exactly the same with the only difference that Pavan goes in rhythm of four in a bar which equals three in a bar of Galliard. However the dancers change from stately movements of Pavin to very fast steps of a Galliard and this is the reason why people describe it as the fast dance. -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.silvius.co.uk http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ www.myspace.com/sambuca999 www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
