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Definition of Galliards
1. galliard [n] - See also: galliard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galliards
Literary usage of Galliards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"With these partners, slow dances, called by Daniel "certain measures," are
performed; and then quick dances—"galliards and ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1848)
"[The clerk has evidently made a mistake here, in inserting the indefinite article:
the title of the ballad must have been, "Of lusty galliards," those quick ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Thus Morley, in the same part of the work just mentioned, speaks of the desirableness
of alternating Pavans and galliards ; since the first was 'a kind of ..."
4. Old English Instruments of Music: Their History and Character by Francis William Galpin (1911)
"... and galliards "for the consort." In the chamber where the musicians played
were "one long- bord with ii tressels, one long joyned forme, and one playne ..."
5. An Elizabethan Virginal Book: Being a Critical Essay on the Contents of a by Edward Woodall Naylor (1905)
"Many of these Pavans and galliards are curiously named, sometimes after persons,
to whom perhaps they were " dedicated," to use our modern phrase. ..."
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