sports dictionary Dance sports - PAVANA

Dance sports PAVANA The opening dance of the balls of the 16th and 17th centuries, in a dicotyledonous (sometimes three-domed) scale, was a slow, stately procession. Pavana comes from Spain, its name is related to the word pavo ("peacock"); perhaps pavana is a late form of bass dance. In the 17th century, the pavane was usually followed by a fast, jumping galliard. In Italy and Germany, padova (from the name of the Italian city of Padua) was often synonymous with pavana. German composers in the period after 1600 (for example, I. G. Schein) wrote solemn, magnificent compositions, which they called "pavans". Pavanes were also composed by the English madrigalists W. Bird, J. Bull, O. Gibbons, and J. R. R. Tolkien.Among contemporary composers, the pavane was revived by M. Ravel and Morton Gould.