Holborne - Pavane and Galliard

Holborne - Pavane and Galliard

1. Structure

   • Through composed ABC - tri-partite
   • Each section is repeated
   • Each strain concludes with a perfect cadence

2. Rhythm and Meter

   • Pavan - duple
   • Galliard - triple
   • Rhythmic patterns rarely repeated
   • Rhythms of the two movements are considerably different

3. Melody

   • Melodic interest is shared between instruments
   • Conjunct - particularly in first viol - only three cases of disjunct intervals
   • No interval wider than a perfect 5th

4. Instrumentation

   • Consort music - written for 5 instruments
   • Can be played on any 5 instruments
   • For amateur musicians
   • Viols - two trebles, one tenor and two basses

5. Texture

   • Five part polyphonic
   • Imitation between parts
   • The five instruments keep their own tier within texture

6. Harmony

   • Harmony is created by polyphonic movement
   • Only at cadence points there is a sense of harmonic structure
   • The music is linear opposed to vertical - harmony is less important than melody

7. Tonality

   • The key of the music changes regularly
   • Diatonic D in the pavane
   • A minor/major in the galliard
   • Composed towards the end of the renaissance when the modal system was being replaced by scales