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PAVANE, PAVAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAVANE, PAVAN Or PAVAN, the name of a slow stately See also:dance of the 16th and 17th centuries. The word has been variously derived: (I) from See also:Lat. pavo, See also:peacock; the dancers, as they See also:wheel and turn, spread out their See also:long cloaks, which they retained in this dance, like the tail of the See also:bird; (2) from Padovana, i.e. of See also:Padua, in See also:Italy; the dance, however, is usually taken to have come from See also:Spain. As an instrumental See also:composition, See also:common in the 16th and 17th centuries, the " pavane " was usually followed by the See also:quick and lively " galliard," as the " gigue " followed the " See also:saraband " in the later See also:suite (see DANCE).

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