Tourdion

[citation needed] 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".

[2] 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[3] (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.

The step is repeated as a pied en l'air gauche, with the left foot kicked into the air and a slight hop to land upon the right.

Following the four kicks, one performs a saut moyen—a small jump into the air that pulls the feet into the posture gauche or droit—whichever is the opposite of the first.