Chaconne

In music a chaconne is a musical form.

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Music - Musical form

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Originally a kind of dance in a slow 3/4 time which first emerged in the 16th century and which is probably of Spanish provenance, the word was later applied to any work in 3/4 consisting of a set of variations over a never-changing bass (a ground bass). One of the best known examples is the chaconne from the Violin Partita in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach (the bass line is not always present in this work, but it is strongly implied). Bach's Goldberg Variations are also frequently reckoned to be a chaconne, although Bach did not explicitly label them as such. After the baroque period, the chaconne form was not often used, though the 32 Variations in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven belong to the form.

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Dance - Time - 16th century - Spanish - Ground bass - Violin Partita in D minor - Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations - Baroque - Ludwig van Beethoven

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The chaconne is almost identical with the passacaglia, except that in the passacaglia the repeated theme is not always in the bass.

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