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World of Medieval Music present: Pavana y Gallarda La Trulla composed by Bartomeu Càrceres, XVI cent. About the composition: La Ensalada La Trulla or The Trowel Salad, is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century. For a Spaniard in the Golden Age, the word salad was composition just like a garden salad, metaphorically speaking - mixes different meters, textures,languages, musical moods, situations, characters, etc. The texts generally are allegories of the Nativity, and seem especially to have been performed around Christmas. The message, though, is always conveyed through a secular story that frequently includes realistic characters both ordinary and aristocratic, entangled in situations, of-ten funny, with many references to real places and people. Legend said that the origin of this dance may have been Mexican, then carried to Spain where it was finally stylized and later carried on to Italy and
