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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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This surface burlesque, however, cloaks Morris's great musical sensitivity and parodic flair, in which musical jokes of endless chaconnes and animalistic squawks of sound are sweetly echoed in a great swamp processional of amphibians with heads darting, cheeks puffing silently in and out, and bodies undulating as they sip from the water bowl of life.
Platee by Ross, Janice / Dance Magazine
But Evans was probably at his best in Alleyne's The New Blondes, a severely elegiac piece set to two Pachelbel chaconnes (in F and in D minor).
New York City Ballet by McQuade, Molly / Dance Magazine
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