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REISN OF ELIZABETH.
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Reverting to the pavan and galliard, Morley says, " The pavan" (derived from
pavo, a peacock) "for grave dancing; galliards, which usually follow pavans, they
are for a lighter and more stii'ring kind of dancing."' The pavan was sometimes
danced by princes and judges in their robes, and by ladies with long trains held up
behind them ; but usually the galliard followed the pavan, much in the same manner
as the gavotte follows the minuet. Butler, in his Principles of Musick, 1636, says,
" Of this sort (the Ionic mood) are pavans, invented for a slow and soft kind of
dancing, altogether in duple proportion [common time]. Unto which are framed
galliards for more quick and nimble motion, always in triple proportion : and,
therefore, the triple is oft called galliard time, and the duple pavan time. In this
kind is also comprehended the infinite multitude of Ballads, set to sundry pleasant
and delightful tunes by cunning and witty composers, with country dances fitted
unto them, . . . and which surely might and would be more freely permitted by
our sages, were they used as they ought, only for health and recreation." — (p. 8.)
At this time Puritanism was nearly at its height.
WITH MY FLOCK AS WALKED I.
Stafford Smith found this song, with the tune, in a manuscript of about the year
1600, and printed it in his Musica Antiqua, p. 57. I discovered a second copy of
the tune in Elizabeth Rogers' MS. Virginal book, in the British Museum, under
the name of The faithful Brothers.
The song is evidently in allusion to Queen Elizabeth, and in the usual com-
plimentary style to her beauty, to her vow of virginity, &c.
Gracefully.
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