Definition of "pavane"

[…] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?

1656, Robert Sanderson, Twenty Sermons‎, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 13, p. 267

And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan […]New York: Huebsch, 1921, Chapter 5, p. 274,

1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch

Why then be merry; be merry, or I’le beOut of humour, and then who shall dance the PavanWith Ossorio?

1664, Thomas Porter, The Carnival‎, London: Henry Herringman, act II, scene 1, page 25

From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax.

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, pages 218–219