Passamezzo moderno

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rdf:langString Morley, Thomas. 1597. A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke. London: Peter Short.

rdf:langString Middleton, Richard. 1990. Studying Popular Music. Milton Keynes and Philadelphia: Open University Press. ; . Reprinted 2002.

rdf:langString Holt, David, Doc Watson, and Merle Watson. 2009. "Free Little Bird". Piney Grove Ramblers: Bluegrass for the People website

rdf:langString Helms, Anna, Otto Ilmbrecht, and Heinrich Dieckelmann . Die Tanzkette, Frankfurt am Main: Hoffmeister Verlag.

rdf:langString Iron e Wine [2005]. A History of Lovers CifrasFX website .

rdf:langString van der Merwe, Peter. 1989. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press. .

rdf:langString The passamezzo moderno ("modern half step"; also quadran, quadrant, or quadro pavan), or Gregory Walker was "one of the most popular harmonic formulae in the Renaissance period, divid[ing] into two complementary strains thus:" For example, in C major the progression is as follows: The progression or ground bass, the major mode variation of the passamezzo antico, originated in Italian and French dance music during the first half of the 16th century, where it was often used with a contrasting progression or section known as ripresi. Though one of Thomas Morley's characters in Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke denigrates the Gregory Walker, comparing unskilled singing to its sound, it was popular in both pop/popular/folk and classical musics through 1700. Its popularity was revived in the mid 19th century, and the American variant (below) evolved into the twelve bar blues.