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chaconne

Piece of music derived from a dance form, possibly of Spanish origin, in three time, constructed over a ground bass. An example is the aria ‘Dido's Lament’ from Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas (1689), in which the inevitability of the bass line conveys a sense of Dido's inescapable fate.
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