On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Franz Mechsner<[email protected]> wrote: > wrote it with the cat on y lap and forgot editing... if this is kind of > an excuse...
... the best possible. You could start with Robert Donington's "The Interpretation of Early Music" (Faber & Faber). He calls a Galiard a rapid dance with a moderate pulse, the same, in fact, of the Pavan preceding it, so both can be performed (danced as well as played) as a unit. The dancer moves faster though the music does not. Morley (1597) calls it lighter and more stirring than the pavan. Mace (1676) says 'slow and large triple-time, grave and sober' End of quotes. Time to find your on truth. ;-) David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
