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cha·conne  (shä-kôn, -kn)
n.
1. A slow, stately dance of the 18th century or the music for it.
2. A form consisting of variations based on a reiterated harmonic pattern.

[French, from Spanish chacona, a kind of dance.]

chaconne [ʃəˈkɒn (French) ʃakɔn]
n
1. (Music / Classical Music) a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass See also passacaglia
2. (Performing Arts / Dancing) Archaic a dance in slow triple time probably originating in Spain
[from French, from Spanish chacona, probably imitative of the castanet accompaniment]


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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.
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.
While purists might object to playing Bach on the piano and not the harpsichord, others will rejoice in the incredible variety of Bach's works presented here: concertos, fantasias, capriccios, duets, inventions, sinfonias, toccatas, preludes, fugues, chaconnes, chorales and a Siciliano.
 
 
 
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