32. Pavan or pavane: stately processional dance in duple meter, with three repeated phrases in the form AABBCC; became a popular form for stylized, virtuosic settings, often paired with the galliard
33. Galliard: brisk dance in triple meter, same form as the pavane
34. 1. Vocal music played by instruments. Instrumental ensemble performance of vocal music: instrumental ensembles often played chansons, lieder, madrigals, and even motets and mass movements. These served purposes similar to stylized dances: for the entertainment of listeners or of the players themselves. 2. Settings of existing melodies: Instrumental composers wrote hundreds of settings of existing melodies, as vocal composers had done for centuries. 3. Variation sets: Beginning in the sixteenth century, composers wrote many sets of variations for instruments 4. Introductory "free" forms for solo instruments: Soloists used introductory pieces to test the tuning of an instrument, to introduce a song or other vocal piece, or to demonstrate their skill. 2.