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gallliardDANCE MUSIC:
Joyssans

- Title: Joyssansgalliard

- Composer: Thoinot Arbeau

- Genre: Secular, Dance music, Galliard

- Style: Renaissance

- Instruments: Recorder, lute, viola  da braccio, tambourine

- Technique: Polyphonypattern

- Description: The galliard was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. As a dance, the galliard was to be improvised.
Musical compositions in the galliard form appear to have been written and performed after the dance fell out of popular use. In musical compositions like suites, the galliard often filled the role of an after-dance written in 6/8, which followed another piece (sometimes a pavane).
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