The tunes of Cushion-Dances (like Barley-Breaks) have the first part in
3
4, and the last in 6
8 time. The earliest printed copy I have found is in Tablature de Luth, intitulé Le Secret des Muses, 4to., Amsterdam, 1615, where it is called Gaillarde Anglaise. In Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck, Haerlem, 1626, the same air is entitled Gallarde Suit Margriet, which being intended as English, may be guessed as “Galliard, Sweet Margaret.’ It is the following:—
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\stemUp <b d,>4( \p <g b,>) <a d,> |
b4. b8 a4 |
g g <fs c> |
<g b,>2. |
<b d,>4( \f <g b,>) <a d,> |
b4. b8 a4 |
g g <fs c> |
<g b,>2. | \bar "||"
<a fs d>4 \p a a |
d4. c8 b4 |
a4. g8[ fs e] |
<fs a,>4 d2 |
<a' fs d>4 \f a a |
d4. c8 b4 |
a4. g8[ fs e] |
<fs a,>4 d2 | \bar "||"
<b' d,>4( \p <g b,>) <a d,> |
b4. b8 a4 |
g g <fs c> |
<g b,>2. |
<b d,>4( \f <g b,>) <a d,> |
b4. b8 a4 |
g g fs |
<g b,>2. | \bar "||"
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^\markup{\italic{Quick.}}
<g d b>4 g8 g4 <a fs>8 |
<b g>8.[ a16 b8] g8.[ a16 b8] |
<a d,>8.[ b16 c8] <b d,>8.[ a16 b8] |
<a fs>4. ~ <a fs>4 a8 |
<a fs>4 a8 <a fs d>8. b16 c8 |
<d g, d>4 d8 <d a e>4 c8 |
b8.[ a16 g8] b4 <a fs c>8 |
<g b,>2. |
\bar "||"
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\clef treble \key g \major
\time 3/4
s2. |
\stemDown \tieDown g4( e) fs |
fs e8[ d] s4 |
s2. |
s2. |
g4( e) fs |
fs e8[ d] s4 |
s2. |
s2. |
<a' d,>2 g4 |
e c2 |
s2. |
s2. |
<a' d,>2 g4 |
e c2 |
s2. |
s2. |
g'4( e) fs |
fs e8[ d] s4 |
s2. |
s2. |
g4( e) fs |
fs e8[ d] c4 |
s2. |
\time 6/8
s2. |
s2. |
s2. |
s2. |
s2. |
s2. |
d4. ~ d4 s8 |
s2. ||
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\clef bass \key g \major
\time 3/4
\stemUp g4( \stemDown g') fs |
e( \stemUp c) \stemDown d |
\stemUp b c d |
\stemDown e \stemUp d8[ c b a] |
g4( \stemDown g') fs |
e( \stemUp c) d |
b c d |
g, b g ||
d2. |
\stemDown fs'4 d e |
\stemUp c a2 |
d4. a8[ fs a] |
d,2. |
\stemDown fs'4 d e |
\stemUp c a2 |
d4. c8[ b a] ||
g4( \stemDown g') fs |
e( \stemUp c) \stemDown d |
\stemUp b c d |
\stemDown e \stemUp d8[ c b a] |
g4( \stemDown g') fs |
e( \stemUp c) \stemDown d |
\stemUp b c d |
g,2. ||
\time 6/8
g4. \stemDown d'4. |
g e |
fs g |
d'4 a8 d,4. |
\stemUp d c |
b a |
\stemDown d d |
g4 \stemUp d8 g,4. ||
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The Galliard (a word meaning brisk, gay; and used in that sense by Chaucer) is described by Sir John Davis as a swift and wandering dance, with lofty turns and capriols in the air. Thoinot Arbeau, in his Orchesographie, 1589, says that, formerly, when the dancer had taken his partner for the galliard, they first placed themselves at the end of the room, and, after a bow and curtsey, they walked once
