Holborne Pavane And Galliard
Illustrate the features of Holborne’s ‘Pavane and Galliard’ that are typical of the late Renaissance period.
Holborne’s work Pavane ‘The image of melancholy’ and Galliard ‘Ecce quam bonum’ appeared in a collection of music released in 1599, towards the end of the Renaissance period. The lack of specified instrumentation is a perfect example of its date (although it would most likely have been performed by a ‘broken consort’, a mixed group of wind and string instruments). As one would expect from a Renaissance piece, the texture is largely polyphonic, punctuated by moments of chordal homophony (bars 9 to 10 of the Galliard). Integrated into the polyphonic texture are short imitative fragments, extremely characteristic of the Renaissance
Holborne’s work Pavane ‘The image of melancholy’ and Galliard ‘Ecce quam bonum’ appeared in a collection of music released in 1599, towards the end of the Renaissance period. The lack of specified instrumentation is a perfect example of its date (although it would most likely have been performed by a ‘broken consort’, a mixed group of wind and string instruments). As one would expect from a Renaissance piece, the texture is largely polyphonic, punctuated by moments of chordal homophony (bars 9 to 10 of the Galliard). Integrated into the polyphonic texture are short imitative fragments, extremely characteristic of the Renaissance