pavana

The Pavane is a slow processional dance used to carry couples to the front of the court room to present themselves to the queen. Possibly, the dance was derived from the Italian Padovana, and it was popular in the Elizabethan court in England.

a stately dance [ puh-vahn, -van; French pa-van ] show ipa. noun,plural pa·vanes [puh-vahnz, -vanz; French pa-van]. a stately dance dating from the 16th century. the music for this dance.

The pavane's basic movement, to music in 2/2 or 4/4 time, consisted of forward and backward steps; the dancers rose onto the balls of their feet and swayed from side to side. A column of couples circled the ballroom, and the dancers occasionally sang.

The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse.

Adapted from the basse danse, an earlier court dance, the Pavane presumably traveled from Italy, originating around 1508, to France and England by way of Spain; in southern Spain it was performed in churches on solemn occasions.

(See Video Clip 39), Described as a processional dance, Arbeau notes that the pavan (Fr., pavane, pavanne; It., pavana, padovana) is danced by "walking with decorum and measured gravity." The dance, as described by Arbeau, consists of two single steps (simple) and one double step (double),forward (See Video Clip 36), ...

The piece wasn't written for a particular person; Ravel simply wanted to compose a pavane (a slow procession) that a princess would have danced to in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

While it's literally true that the French should be translated as 'Pavane for a dead Princess', Ravel was at pains to point out that it 'Is not a funeral lament for a dead child, but rather an evocation of the pavane that might have been danced by such a little princess as painted by Velázquez'.

(See Video Clip 39), Described as a processional dance, Arbeau notes that the pavan (Fr., pavane, pavanne; It., pavana, padovana) is danced by "walking with decorum and measured gravity." The dance, as described by Arbeau, consists of two single steps (simple) and one double step (double),forward (See Video Clip 36), ...

F-sharp minorPavane, op. 50 / Key Pavane is written in the key of F♯ Minor. According to the Theorytab database, it is the 7th most popular key among Minor keys and the 15th most popular among all keys.

The most famous examples are Faure's Pavane and Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess.

The birth of cham (mask) dance is dated back to the 8th century during the reign of Buddhist master Guru Padmasambhava to cast away the evils by imbuing God's mask at the foundation laying ceremony of the Samye monastery in Tibet.