The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH)

The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH)

Galliard

BACKGROUND

Information: A dance.

"The age of the galliard," 1581-1602.

Galliard is a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. It is a lively dance in triple time that includes complicated turns and steps.

"Galliard is also not just a dance by a single couple, it could be a solo male or female, a fixed set of couples, or a changing set (including one with an exponential progression). Admittedly the single couple form was the most common.
Regards,
Iver Cooper"

Translation: Lively

Pronunciation: GAEL-jerd

Region: Europe

REFERENCES

Arena (1528).
Attaignant, France, 1530, published galliards.
Castiglione. Book of the Courtier: mentions Vincenzo Calmeta, poet and courtier, writing in 1497 to 1500, who mentions galliard.
Compasso. Ballo Della Gagliarda, Florence, 1560.
Pfatteicher: no galliards in England before 1541.
Th. Elyot. The Castel of Helth. London, 1534: "Vehement exercise is compounde of violent exercise and swifte when they are joyned together at one tyme, as dansying of galyardes," quoted in Louis Horst, Pre-Classic Dance Forms. New York, 1937, p.19.

Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchesographie et traicté en forme de dialogue par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances, par Thoinot Arbeau, Longres: Jehan des Preyz, 1589.
Esquivel Navarro, Juan de. Discursos sobre el arte del dançado y sus excelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas. Seville: 1642.
Lauze, François de. Apologie de la Danse, et la parfaicte methode de l'enseigner tant aux Cavaliers qu'aux dames. Paris?: 1623.
Lupi da Caravaggio, Livio. Libro di gagliarda, tordiglione, passo e mezzo canari è passeggi. Di Liuio Lupi da Carauaggio. Di nuouo corretti, & con l'aggiunta. Palerme: 1607.
Lutij di Sulmona, Prospero. Opera bellissima nella quale si contegono multe partite, et passeggi di gagliarda. Perugia: Pietropaolo Orlando, 1589.
Mersenne, Marin. Harmonie Universelle, contenant la theorie et la pratique de la Musique: où il est traité des consonances, des dissonances, des genres, des modes, de la composition, de la voix, des chants, et de toutes sortes d'instruments harmoniques. Paris: P. Ballard, 1636.
Negri, Cesare. Nuove inventioni di balli ; opera vaghissima nella quale si danno i giusti modi del ben portar la vita, et di accommodarsi con ogni leggiadria di mouimento alle creanze et gratie d'amore. Conueneuoli a tutti i cavalieri, & dame, per ogni sorte di ballo, balletto, & brando d'Italia, di Spagna & di Francia. Con figure...in rame et regole della musica et intauolatura quali si richieggono al suono et al canto. Divisa in tre trattati. Milano: G. Bordone: 1604.

DOCUMENT

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