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pavan|ˈpævən| Forms: (6 pavion, -yon), 6–9 pavane, -in, -en, 7 -ian, -ine, 9 -aun, 6– pavan. [a. F. pavane (1524–30 in Godef. Compl.), ad. It. pavana (Florio), or Sp. pavana, pabana (Minsheu): of disputed origin. See note below.] A grave and stately dance, in which the dancers were elaborately dressed; introduced into England in the sixteenth century.
[1530Elyot Gov. i. xx, We haue nowe base daunsis,..pauions, turgions, and roundes.] 1535Lyndesay Satyre 3652 We sall leir ȝow to dance..Ane new pavin of France. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxiii. (Arb.) 61 Daunced by measures as the Italian Pauan and galliard are at these daies in Princes Courts. 1602Middleton Blurt, Master-Const. iv. ii, He dances the Spanish pavin. 1652News fr. Lowe-Countr. 7 Can any dance The Spanish Pavin, tricks of France. 1776Hawkins Hist. Music IV. iv. i. 387 The Pavan..derived from the Latin Pavo..a kind of dance, performed..with such circumstances of dignity and stateliness as shew the propriety of the appellation. 1820Scott Monast. xxi, Your leg would make an indifferent good show in a pavin or a galliard. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 254 Those beautiful old-fashioned dances, pavanes, and minuets, and gavottes. b. Music for this dance or in its rhythm, which is duple and very slow.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 39 Whether these galiardes, pauanes and daunces..be lyker the Musike of the Lydians or the Dorians. a1619Fletcher Mad Lover ii. i, Ile pipe him such a Paven. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. v. 293 Dance-tunes such as the pavan and passamezzo. 1887W. B. Squire in Dict. Nat. Biog. IX. 96/2 The only extant compositions of his..are some instrumental pavans. c. attrib. and Comb.
1611Cotgr., Pavanier, a pauine-maker; a dauncer of Pauines. 1636Butler Princ. Mus. 8 The triple is oft called Galliard-time, and the duple, Pavin-time. [Note. According to the Spanish Academy, pavana (found in D. Pisada 1552) is a derivative of Sp. pavo peacock, ‘in allusion to the movements and ostentation of that bird’; so Chambers 1727, from Dict. Trévoux 1721, ‘a grave kind of dance, borrowed from the Spaniards, wherein the performers make a kind of wheel or tail before each other, like that of a peacock: whence the name’; so in M. Compan, Dict. de la Danse 1787, Littré, etc. See also Elyot's Governor, ed. Croft, I. 231, 241 notes, Gloss. II. 580; and cf. the German name Pfauentanz ‘peacock-dance’. Others have attributed to the dance an Italian origin, and viewed pavana as reduced from Padovana ‘Paduan’ (which occurs in A. Rotta 1546); a 17th c. MS. collection of airs and dances by Dowland, Holborne, and others, in Camb. Univ. Lib., Dd. 4. 23 contains (near the end) a piece entitled Padouana de la Milanessa. But the phonetic difficulties in identifying the two words are serious; and they are prob. distinct terms, which may afterwards have sometimes been confused by those who knew the history of one of them only: cf. e.g. J. B. Besardus Thesaur. Harmon. (Cologne 1604) Pref.] |