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The Gregory Walker or passamezzo moderno ("modern half step"; also quadran, quadrant, or quadro pavan) was "one of the most popular harmonic formulae in the Renaissance period, divid() 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 . ==Examples== Listed in : *several in ''The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'' *"Up and Ware Them A Willie" *"Jimmie Rose" *"Darling Nelly Gray" *"Wreck of the Old 97" *Woody Guthrie's "There is a House in This Old Town" *Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" *The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" (1969) *Carole King's "You've Got a Friend" (1971) Listed in : *Hans Neusidler's "''Gassenhawer''" (Nuremberg, 1536) *"Oxstedter Mühle" (folk dance from Lower Saxony) (B section) *Diego Ortiz' ''Recercada Prima / Segunda / Tercera sobre el Passamezzo Moderno'' (three-part didactic composition in ''Tratado de Glosas sobre cláusulas y Otros Generos de Puntos en la Música de Violones'', 1553). (Readers of Spanish may benefit from the Spanish-language Wikipedia's more extensive treatment of Diego Ortiz and of the ''Tratado de Glosas''.) Others: *Iron & Wine's "A History of Lovers" (verses; chorus and interludes follow ''ripresi'' IV-I-IV-V progression) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Passamezzo moderno」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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