Antonio Corona wrote:
Dana: Pavanna are dances, they are slow dances with the steps taken on the tactus, typically one step per modern measure. Lots of time for slow graceful showing off by the strutting peacocks. No matter if the tactus is subdivided triply or duply. As I stated above, the sixth "pavan" is by no means such a dance. As far as I can recall, I have never seen a pavan in triple time with the characteristic hemiola of the galliard. Speed has nothing to do with rythmic structure. I agree that the sixth pavan sounds like a gaillard. For my taste, a tempo of 120semibreves/min sounds best -- apt for a gaillard. But where is there a hemiola in the 6th pavan? (The breves at the section ends are perfect, i.e. have the value of three semibreves.) Karl -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
