Crossword-Solution: PASSAMEZZO 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 32

Among the nobler and statelier dances in vogue at the court of the Tudors, were the Pavan (from _pavo_, a peacock), with the Galliard (a lighter measure, which was probably to the Pavan what in later years the Gavotte was to the Minuet), the Passamezzo, the Courant, and the Saraband.

There were dances and songs--a sailor's contra-dance to the music of a horn pipe, a stately passamezzo by the Indian court, a madrigal and an ode in compliment to the Queen.[3] Finally the leader of the white men planted the banner of England on the little knoll, and in the name of his sovereign received the homage of the Indians.

The original text sometimes misspells "Passamezzo" as "Passemezzo" and "viol da gamba" as "viol de gamba." These have been corrected in this e-text.

Hawkins helps to confuse the matter by explaining that the Galliard has _five bars or steps_ in the first strain, and that the Passamezzo has just half that number, and thus gets its name.

The Passamezzo (or passy-measures pavin) tune in the Appendix has a similar construction to the ordinary pavan, the form of which has been explained earlier in this section--_i.e._, it consists of regular 'strains,' which in their turn contain a certain _even_ number of semibreves, or 'bars.' In the case given, the strains consist of _eight_ bars each.