Boulay, Laurence
Danses Et Chansons Du Xvie Siècle
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Hard To Find 1980 French Gatefold Original. Appears Glossy. ln the sixteenth century there was still no clear distinction between organ music and harpsichord music. No doubt these composers and players, like their seventeenth:century successors, played both instruments. Seven different dances are represented on this record. The Pavane, a slow, majestic dance played during solemn processions or at the start of a ball, when the dancers would move slowly round the room immediately before the saltarello or galliard. ln fact it is this combination of pavane and galliard that occurs most frequently in music of the sixteenth century but pavanes are also found separately, in English music for viol, in ,Gennan music for several instruments, and in seventeenth-century English ' and French keyboard music (by such composers as Tomkins, Gibbons, Dowland, Chambonnières and Louis Couperin).