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pavane

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The Pavane in F-sharp minor , Op. 50, is a pavane by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887 . It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining its rhythm from the slow processional ...

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He began to play a Narvaez pavane that he was vastly proud of having transcribed for the lute.

Ben came in while he was playing, and they nodded at each other, but Farrell went on with the pavane until it ended abruptly in a gentle broken arpeggio.

The consort began to play another Gervaise piece, a pavane, giving it the slow, gracious lilt that makes a pavane something more than procession.

The steps were those of a pavane, but a pavane created and performed by rabbits in moonlight instead of peacocks stalking, blue as salt on fire, along white walks under a Spanish noon.

Her eyes were on the pavane again, and her fingers had never left their blind work in the cold grass.

Two huge Afghan hounds, one black, one golden, lolloped among the dancers, their grinning loutishness and primrose eyes somehow turning the pavane altogether into a tapestry fragment glowing far away.

Nicholas Bonner followed at the pace of the pavane, still dancing serenely by himself.

Basilisk followed with a pavane for the entrance of the Nine Dukes and their households.

In that blue place the test of bone and muscle becomes a pavane where everyone but me is locked into preordained steps while I dance lightly, mind clean as a razor: faster, denser, more alive.

The driver was either old or drunk because the car was weaving a pavane up and down, crossing through the dead zones and nearly entering the lanes above and below, as well as from side to side.

The careful pavane of jugs, orchestrated by a terrified Rushad, served by stone-faced women.

Stately pavanes gave way to the galliard and the antic hey, and the musicians played in a frenzy, faces shining with sweat.

They dance pavanes, galliards, corantos, branles, contredans, and so forth.

It was a bit more of that Horatian Ode: And something something something can Take partners for a plonk pavane, The bunded giant's staff Tracing a seismograph.

Even now, the royal musicians were tuning shaum and sackbutt and tambour, trilling snatches of jaunty airs and stately pavanes in the music gallery.