 In a triple meter, the tourdion's "was nearly the same as the Galliard, but the former was more rapid and smooth than the latter".Pierre Attaingnant published several tourdions in his first publication of collected dances in 1530, which contains, as the sixth and seventh items, a basse dance entitled "La Magdalena" with a following tourdion (it was only in 1949 that César Geoffray arranged this "following" tourdion as a four-voice chanson, by adding the lyrics "Quand je bois du vin clairet...").Thoinot Arbeau later documented information about the tourdion in his work "" ("Orchesography", pp.