The 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.[citation needed] The dance was accompanied frequently by the basse danse, due to their contrasting tempi, and were danced alongside the pavane and galliard, and the allemande and courante, also in pairs.[citation needed]
The Swedish choir Harmonica sings a tourdion ("Quand je bois du vin clairet").
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In a triple meter, the tourdion's "was nearly the same as the Galliard, but the former was more rapid and smooth than the latter".[1] Pierre Attaingnant published several tourdions in his first publication of collected dances in 1530, which contains, as the sixth and seventh items, a basse dance entitled "La Magdalena" with a following tourdion[2] (it was only in 1949 that César Geoffray arranged this "following" tourdion as a four-voice chanson, by adding the lyrics "Quand je bois du vin clairet...").[citation needed] Thoinot Arbeau later documented information about the tourdion in his work Orchésographie [fr; ca; de; hu; ja; ru] (Orchesography, pp. 49–57), published in 1589.
^Sir George Grove (1889). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: (A.D. 1450–1889). Vol. 4. London: Macmillan And Co. (published 1890). p. 154.
^Pierre Attaingnant, ed. (1530). Neuf basses dances deux branles vingt et cinq Pauennes auec quinze Gaillardes en musique a quatre parties. Paris: Pierre Attaingnant. pp. fol. iiv–iiir.
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