Frog Galliard
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This is a dance choreographed by Valerie Williams using galliard steps from Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesography. See the Galliard page to see the step notations from Arbeau. The Frog Galliard is a delightful, but quite complex dance to do. See if you can make up your own variations, and then use those and Arbeau's variations to choreograph a dance using this music.
The tune is ascribed to John Dowland and is known as "The Frog Galliard" or "Now, oh now I needs must part". Jacob van Eyck made a variation of this music, originally published for the recorder, called "Courant, of Harte diefje waerom zoo stil".
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