Pavane à quatre parties was written down if not composed by a French cleric, Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). Under the pseudonym Thoinot Atbeau, he published his famous Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. It contains perhaps the earliest written choreographic notations in Europe. The work also includes the score for this Pavane.