Pavane passemaize amp sa Gaillarde Claude Gervaise 1555 Mountain Dulcimer

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Among the court dances very fashionable in the 16th century, the pavane was a dance of couples moving in procession, slow and majestic, almost always in a minor mode. Thoinot Arbeau (Orchèsographie, 1589) wrote that men can dance with cape and sword and ladies with long dresses . The name passemaize comes from the Italian passamezzo which can be translated as one and a half steps . It was a very popular chord progression during the Italian Renaissance, of which a minor variation (passamezzo antico) and a major variation (passamesso moderno) were known. The former is still in use today. • • In the balls of the nobility, the pavane with a slow and solemn rhythm was generally followed by a gailliard, more lively and danced (or even run), always in couples, with skipped steps rather than gliding. The first gailliards were published by Pierre Attaingnant in 1530 and this dance subsequently evolved into the volte . • • I have already presented Claude Gervaise in the description of “Bransle de Champaigne” : • • Bransle de Champaigne - Claude Gervai... • whose music is taken from the same “Book VI of Danceries” as this pavane. • • All the dances by Claude Gervaise were published for four voices or instrumental lines. The gailliard played here presents in two of its voices an E flat for which there is no fret on the dulcimer tuned 1-5-8 (here C-G-c). I (artificially) solved the problem by playing a natural E, which I lowered by a semitone in post-production with the freeware Audacity : • https://www.audacityteam.org/ • • Dulcimer (Virginia dogwood/walnut) made in 2018 by Mr. Jack Ferguson (Salem, VA, USA) : • https://appflutesanddulcimers.com/ • • The birds that we hear chirping in the middle of the pavan (around 00:42) are ring-necked parakeets (Psittacula krameri) which colonize the high fir tree in the neighbor's garden...

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