pavaneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).^[1]

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /pəˈvɑːn/

名詞

pavane (複数形 pavanes)

1. (music) A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • 1656, Robert Sanderson, Twenty Sermons, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 13, p. 267,^[1]

     […] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?

   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:

     And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan […]

     New York: Huebsch, 1921, Chapter 5, p. 274,^[2]

2. (music, dance) A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
   • 1664, Thomas Porter, The Carnival, London: Henry Herringman, Act II, Scene 1, p. 25,^[3]

     Why then be merry; be merry, or I’le be

     Out of humour, and then who shall dance the Pavan

     With Ossorio?

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 33, pp. 218-219,^[4]

     From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax.

派生した語

• → Welsh: pafán

動詞

pavane (三人称単数 現在形 pavanes, 現在分詞 pavaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 pavaned)

1. (intransitive, rare) To dance the pavane.

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