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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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The fascination in the piece was the slow movement, a merging of chaconnes - pieces built on the same harmonic progression -except there were several moving at once, which kept listeners busy.
Hahn steals the show - again; MUSIC REVIEW Hilary Hahn, RLPO & ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The Pachelbel will have plenty of company on this diverse program, which includes sonatas, chaconnes and other works of Stradella, Purcell, Jacquet de la Guerre, Lully, Biber, Corelli, Pasquini, Scarlatti and Rosenmuller -- all chosen by artistic/music directors Byron Schenkman and Ingrid Matthews.
Here comes the King, but he's Basically Baroque by Bargreen, Melinda / The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
This is the composer's bid to add something of consequence to the violin-and-orchestra repertory; it is also a bow to the mother of all chaconnes, the Bach D minor, from the second
Corigliano Scores by Nordlinger, Jay / National Review
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