Meaning chaconne
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chaconne


An ostinato or ground bass variation form of Baroque music in 3/4 time similar to the passacaglia. A chaconne is a set of variations composed upon a continually repeated chord progression.
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chaconne


a slow dance, very similar to a Passacaglia, probably originally from Spain. Usually in a major key, in 3/4 time, with a ground bass and generally in the form of variations.
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chaconne


A moderate triple time dance with the second-beat accent like sarabande. They are not in binary form and they have some kind of recurring bass line together with the full harmony over and over. In pas [..]
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chaconne


A slow, stately dance-with-variations composition form especially popular during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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chaconne


a slow, stately instrumental work in duple meter employing variations. chanson:
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chaconne


A compositional form of Baroque origin consisting of variations built upon a short, repeated harmonic progression.
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chaconne


A type of musical composition popular in the Baroque era, when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line [..]
Source: onbaroque.com





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