tourdion

Full Track. 3:37. A 15th century dance from France, popular culture and danced at courts all over medieval and Renaissance Europe. By the Fleurdelis ensemble featuring real live instruments, including hand percussion, Renaissance Recorder, Hurdy Gurdy and Bouzouki.

The tourdion (or tordion) (from the French verb "tordre" / to twist) is a lively dance, similar in nature to the galliard, and popular from the mid-15th to the late-16th centuries, first in the Burgundian court and then all over the French Kingdom.

The music for a Tourdion is generally in three or six, with a slightly syncopated rhythm.

Now like most dances you are going to start on your left foot. So you're going to go left up on the balls of your feet. And down right up on the bus with your feet together down.

The music for a Tourdion is generally in three or six, with a slightly syncopated rhythm.

The word rhythm is believed to come from the Greek word 'Rhein' meaning to flow or stream. Rhythm is when things happen in the flow of time. In music, rhythm is about when notes, chords, and other musical sounds begin and end.

The Pavane is a slow processional dance used to carry couples to the front of the court room to present themselves to the queen.

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

Rhythm is the way that music is systematically divided into beats that repeat a specific number of times within a bar at a collectively understood speed or tempo. The rhythm in music, by definition, is the timing and pattern of a collection of sounds. Rhythm is how musicians connect and play with one another.

We can use five types of rhythm:

• Random Rhythm.
• Regular Rhythm.
• Alternating Rhythm.
• Flowing Rhythm.
• Progressive Rhythm.

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

Pavane (1887) by Gabriel Fauré, a modern version of the Renaissance genre.