| Musicians usually wrote pavanes and galliards in pairs, the galliard time being a rhythmic adaptation of that of the preceding pavane. |
| They are to dance a pavane in the ball-room and I have to ask for instructions and hand them on. |
| So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay. |
| Common dance pairs included the pavane and galliard, the allemande and courante, and the basse danse and tourdion. |
| Performed as the afterdance of the stately pavane, the galliard originated in 15th-century Italy. |
| Similar comments apply to the pavane, the galliarde and the volta from the Elizabethan period. |
