>> You write 'If that was so (and I can easily imagine it was so), >> then what about Mace's grave galliards?'
> What is the precise difficulty you have with 'Mace's grave galliards' ? No difficulty with the pieces themselves. Fine pieces, grave and solemn, and I like each of them. The difficulty lies in the names saraband and galliard. Sarabands are grave and solemn dances, or pieces of music. Galliards are essentially brisk dances (except when performed merely instrumental in their elaborated form). Or so I was taught. Mace offers quite precise instructions how to perform his sarabands and his galliards. As a result, I play sarabands the way I was thinking that galliards should be played, and galliards the way I was thinking that sarabands should be played. It's simply a confusions of terms in my mind. During the 16th century galliards seem to have been brisk dances, but seem to have slowed down at the time they fell out of use on the floor. I'm aware of not more than one galliard by Denis Gaultier (CNRS 90). It seems to require a slow pace, and in the way Mace advises to take. The fact that Mace offers several galliards adds to the confusion in my mind, probably. At one time I was thinking that sarabands and galliards of the types that Mace described, may have been different kinds of dances than their continental namesakes. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
