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† passeˈmeasure Obs.
Forms: α. 6 passe-, passameze, -meso, 8 passamezzo. β. 6 passa-measure, 7 passy-, passe-, pace-measure.
[Perversion of It. passe-, passa-mezzo: see quots. 1776, 1880.]
A slow dance of Italian origin, app. a variety of the pavan; the music for this, in common time. Also called passemeasures paven, passy measures pavyn = It. passemezzo pavana.
α1568Alford's Instruct. for Lute, Passameze. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 180 Pastorellas and Passamesos with a dittie and such like. 1776Sir J. Hawkins Hist. Music IV. 386 As a Galliard consists of five paces or bars in the first strain, and is therefore called a Cinque Pace; the Passamezzo, which is a diminutive of the Galliard, has just half that number, and from that peculiarity takes its name. 1880W. B. Squire in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 662/1 Tabourot in his Orchésographie [1589] says that when the Pavan was played less solemnly and more quickly, it was called a Passemezzo..It is probable that the name Passemezzo (in which form it is found in the earliest authorities), is simply an abbreviation of Passo e mezzo, i.e. a step and a half, which may have formed a distinctive feature of the old dance.
β1597Breton Wits Trenchmour (1879) 15/1 With a Passa measure pace comming toward her sweet presence. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 205 Then he's a Rogue, and a passy measures Pauyn: I hate a drunken rogue. [1607Lingua iii. vii. G iij b, Thou must dance nothing but the passing measures.] 1611Florio, Passo mezzo, a cinque⁓pace, or pace-measure. 16..MS. Camb. Dd. 2. 11 Passe⁓mezures Pauen. 1623Middleton More Dissemblers Besides Wom. v. i. 162, I can dance nothing but ill-favouredly, A strain or two of passa-measures galliard. 1847–78Halliwell, Passamezzo... The long-disputed phrase passy⁓measures pavin..is in fact the name of an ancient dance, thus described in a MS. quoted by Mr. Collier in the Shak. Soc. Papers, i. 25, ‘two singles and a double forward, and two singles syde, reprynce back.’ It is only necessary to read this, and have seen a drunken man, to be well aware why Dick is called a ‘passy-measures pavin’. |