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The galliard is an athletic dance, characterised by leaps, jumps, hops and other similar figures. The main feature that defines a galliard step is a large jump, after which the dancer lands with one leg ahead of the other. This jump is called a cadence, and the final landing is called the posture.
Along with Gaillard's birthdate, his lineage and place of birth are disputed. Many sources state that he was born in Detroit, Michigan, though Gaillard said himself that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, [3] of an Afro-Cuban mother called Maria (Mary Gaillard) [4] and a German-Jewish father called Theophilus (Theophilus Rothschild) [4] who worked as a ship's steward.
The Accomplish’d Rake, written by Mary Davys and published in 1727, provides a psychological account and transformation of the stock figure of the Rake, detailing the life and exploits of Sir John Galliard, a “modern fine gentlemen” [1] In her work, Davys sought to create a realistic character details, focusing on moral development and reform of her heroes and heroines.
Other dances referred to in English Renaissance plays such as the galliard, pavane, and volta are described in French and Italian dancing manuals by Thoinot Arbeau and Fabritio Caroso among others. Some of the country dances Shakespeare mentions appear in John Playford's The English Dancing Master (1651), but Playford's choreographies probably ...
The dance begins with a galliard. Then the couple makes a transition to a closed position. The leader (the man, according to period custom) lets go of his partner's hand and takes hold of her below her busk with one hand, and places the other hand on her back above the far hip. The follower places her near hand on top of her partner's near ...
In a triple meter, the tourdion's "was nearly the same as the Galliard, but the former was more rapid and smooth than the latter". [1] Pierre Attaingnant published several tourdions in his first publication of collected dances in 1530, which contains, as the sixth and seventh items, a basse dance entitled "La Magdalena" with a following tourdion [2] (it was only in 1949 that César Geoffray ...
Court dances included the pavane and galliard, [4] the almain and the volta, whilst among popular dances were the branle, The Barley-Break (a setting by William Byrd is in My Ladye Nevells Booke), Nobody’s Jig (of which a version was set by Richard Farnaby) and the Shake-a-Trot.
Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (1556 – summer 1611 or 1615 [1]) was a French violinist and composer.He is known for his dance music, bransles (he composed "Le Branle De Montirande") and galliards.