Pavane

The pavane[a] (/pəˈvɑːn, pəˈvæn/ pə-VA(H)N; Italian: pavana, padovana; German: Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).

The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse.

[1] The decorous sweep of the pavane suited the new more sober Spanish-influenced courtly manners of 16th-century Italy.

[1] As a musical form, the pavane survived long after the dance itself was abandoned, and well into the Baroque period, when it finally gave way to the allemande/courante sequence.[8].

Next, a lone gentleman advanced and went en se pavanant (strutting like a peacock) to salute the lady opposite him.

A Pavane , Edwin Austin Abbey , 1897
At the royal court of Henry III of France : Anne de Joyeuse and his wife Marguerite de Vaudémont-Lorraine, dancing a pavane. [ 10 ] Left under the canopy the king and his mother Catherine de' Medici , to the right of her Queen Louise . The musicians on the right side. (c. 1581)