1) Dance form in classical music 2) Renaissance dance
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Tourdion (or Tordion) (from the French verb `tordre` / to twist) is a lively dance, similar in nature to the Galliard, and popular from the mid 15th to the late 16th centuries, first in the Burgundian court and then all over the French Kingdom. The dance was accompanied frequently by the basse danse, due to their contrasting tempi, and were danc.....
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(from the article `music, Western`) ...of pieces in contrasting tempo and metre that often were unified by sharing a common melody. Common dance pairs included the pavane and galliard, ...
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