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	Chaconne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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).
		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.
		The chaconne is almost identical with the passacaglia, except that in the passacaglia the repeated theme is not always in the bass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaconne (192 words)

	Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		We are most familiar with the term "chaconne" (French) as being synonymous with "passacaglia" (Italian) and "ground bass" (English)–that is, any of these terms indicates a repeating melodic line (usually in the bass and composed of four or eight measures) with strong harmonic implications, over which an embellished texture is built.
		Chaconnes are almost always in triple meter and performed at a moderately slow tempo–largely to accommodate the many ornamental passages which will follow.
		Chaconnes are similar to sarabandes in their triple meter, moderately slow tempo, and the frequent emphasis on the second beat–often through the use of a longer rhythm than appeared on the downbeat.
	www.bach.org /bach101/instrumental/chaconne_1004.html (767 words)

	Chaconne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In (An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner) music a chaconne is a (Click link for more info and facts about musical form) musical form.
		The chaconne is almost identical with the (Click link for more info and facts about passacaglia) passacaglia, except that in the passacaglia the repeated theme is not always in the bass.
		The most well known Chaconne or ciaccona is the final movement of the second partita for solo violin by Bach (BWV 1004).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chaconne.htm (301 words)

	Chaconne in D minor JS Bach on guitar
		The Chaconne was the most daring work from this period and probably one of humanity's highest musical accomplishments.
		The chaconne is a special type of continuous Theme and Variations where a somewhat short subject (normally 4 measures) is relentlessly repeated and varied.
		The chaconne is a technical piece illustrating not only the ingenuity and perfection of tools (violin/piano/guitar/orchestra), but the capacity of the human body to use them in skillful ways.
	www.mangore.com /chaco.html (1382 words)

	recordings
		On this, Chaconne's latest album, the group are joined by friends Ben Castle, Paul Clarvis, Phil Crabbe, James Baker, Chris de Souza, Elaine Delmar, Lamin Jassey, Henry Lowther and Nigel Shipway.
		Chaconne Brass has established a reputation as one of Britain's most exciting and versatile ensembles.
		For this reason Chaconne Brass is delighted to have had the opportunity to record this distinctly classical portion of their unique repertoire, consisting of music written exclusively by or for the group.
	www.chaconne.co.uk /record.htm (322 words)

	More unsanitary insanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I want to be able to spend at least two of the remaining week nights with Chaconne, so I can have dinner with her and spend more than just a couple of frenetic hours with her.
		Chaconne and I came back to the hotel, and then went on to a restaurant for dinner.
		I helped Chaconne get her stuff out of the car, said hello to the dogs, played a bit with Chaconne in the garden swinging her around by her arms.
	homepage.mac.com /dberkowicz/iblog/C1728327218/E1562510711 (922 words)

	Monthly Discussions - No. 1 - Chaconne in D minor from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
		The Chaconne, which is the movement by which violinists are always measured, is performed with a great deal of energy, as Cruft attacks the strings with verve in the initial measures, then maintains this energy throughout the movement.
		The chaconne is one of those pieces of Bach that has taken on an independent existence outside its original context and been transcribed for many instruments, I suggested the list might look more closely at one or two of Bach's non-vocal works each month and this seemed a good starting point.
		Chaconnes are in 3 beats and feature a ground bass which is frequently passed to the upper voices.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /MD/MD-BWV1004-Chaconne.htm (8825 words)

	The chaconne is a Baroque dance. Its origin was in Latin America, and, very soon thereafter, it traveled to Spain. The ...
		Some people have also attributed the dance's invention to the devil.(Hudson 3-5) As a leading dance during the early seventeenth century, the chaconne was often accompanied by the guitar, percussion instruments such as the castanets and the tambourine, and a sung text with a refrain.
		Seeing the chaconne as a bass line with room for variation in the upper parts would create an opportunity to use the chorale melody and evolve it, along with other musical elements, into an interesting and expressive piece.
		The fact that, at the time Bach was writing, the chaconne was based on variations over a bass line could have, therefore, been very appealing to him when he decided on a structural form to use as the basis for his piece.
	www.haverford.edu /musc/multimedia/music230/herrero/chaconnewithlinks.html (1828 words)

	William Cumpiano's Segovia Page: The Chaconne
		In its original form, the Chaconne is a great work -- not only great, but gigantic, because it exceeds the limitations of the violin.
		Nothing more natural after this than to adapt the Chaconne to the guitar, which is certainly a close relative to the lute, and for which Bach wrote so many beautiful works.
		In the case of the Chaconne, one might at times ask if Bach were not thinking of an instrument of the guitar family.
	www.cumpiano.com /Home/Articles/Transcriptions/Segovia/Segtransc/Chaconne.html (570 words)

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		Chaconne Brass have an ever-growing list of over 50 works written for the group, a large part of which they have recorded.
		In addition to extensive touring with Chaconne Brass, members work as guest principals and soloists with some of the top orchestras and ensembles in Britain.
		Several members are also teachers as well as successful composers and arrangers with a large number of commissions, concerts and broadcasts in Britain and other countries.
	www.chaconne.co.uk (134 words)

	Bach's Violin Chaconne in d
		The chaconne is a special type of continuous Theme and Variations where a fairly short subject (normally 4 measures) is relentlessly repeated and varied.
		It is a slow dance in simple triple meter, often in a minor key, using the rhythm of a Sarabande, with an agogic accent on the second beat.
		To my surprise, performers of the chaconne are often not able to answer these questions (neither are students after having heard it performed.
	solomonsmusic.net /bachacon.htm (2609 words)

	Chaconne
		First, the chaconne represents economy of means out of which humans have an incredible capacity for elaboration and variation.
		Second, this chaconne is a technical piece illustrating not only the ingenuity and perfection of tools (violin), but the capacity of the human body to use them in skillful ways.
		The beginning does indeed conform to our definition of a chaconne: the unifying element is a repeating chord progression roughly equivalent to: i viio i6 iio V. Toward the end he reverts, however, to passacaglia.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /%7Etas3/mus303/chaconne.html (441 words)

	classical music - andante - christoph poppen and the hilliard ensemble get crazy
		She claims that certain Lutheran Chorales can not only be superimposed upon Bach's mighty D Minor Chaconne from the D Minor Partita, but also play a major role governing the Chaconne's structure.
		Therefore, Christoph Poppen's performances of the Partita's individual movements (which includes the Chaconne, of course) are interspersed with chorales sung by the Hilliard Ensemble.
		In the Chaconne's case, one tends to concentrate on the sustained, ethereal vocal lines while relegating the poor fiddler's Herculean efforts to mere accompaniment.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14600 (381 words)

	Vitali Chaconne for violin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A chaconne is a set of variations over a ground.
		It is also spelled Ciaconne and is a fiery and suggestive dance that appeared in Spain about 1600 and eventually gave its name to this musical form.
		He "enhanced" it to be a virtuoso showpiece rather than the original which is more in the style of the Bach Chaconne.
	www.sheilascorner.com /vitali.html (1035 words)

	Stereophile: Recording of January 2002: J.S. Bach: Morimur
		Whether or not the grieving Bach intended, consciously or unconsciously, to draw the listener's attention to the various "death" chorales identified by Thoene, is beside the point.
		What is important is that both works found their source in the depths of Bach's human capacity for grief—a capacity that, unlike his singular ability to express it in art, is shared by all humanity.
		Ultimately, I prefer Poppen; his control of dynamics is sometimes difficult to believe—at one point in the Chaconne he builds a steady crescendo over more than two minutes, an eternity for a soloist—and his playing is the most "vertical" I have ever heard in the Partita.
	www.stereophile.com /recordingofthemonth/495 (1285 words)

	The Chaconne: Toward Cadential Structure - Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D.
		The chaconne was a catalyst in the development of cadential structure.
		The ground bass (basso ostinato, "obstinate bass") was an important structural device in seventeenth-century composition, since it enabled the composer to achieve coherence in works of some length which were not dancelike or fugal in character.
		The forms of Passacaglia and Chaconne employ the ground bass in combination with variation techniques, and sometimes transfer the bass melody to an upper part.
	www.lesterknibbs.com /matrix/120_towardcadential.html (262 words)

	Bach chaconne in d minor
		The music is the chaconne from J S Bach's Partita in D minor for unaccompanied violin.
		The pianist in the story had had in life only one usable hand, a limitation splendidly overcome in real life by a number of distinguished pianists.
		And Max Steiner's score makes its own wonderful use of the chaconne's stately subject (interwoven with occasional snippets of his trademark "Tara" theme) which has its origin in a dance form of Spanish, or possibly South American, origin.
	home.nyc.rr.com /demojr/Bach.htm (394 words)

	The Art of the Chaconne - CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Henry Purcell: Chaconne from "The Gordian Knot Untied" - orchestra
		The Chaconne is the epitome of all that's best in baroque music: order, pattern, melody, relaxed and easy on the ear.
		This is a disc to study the chaconne, or just to sit back and enjoy.
	www.baroquecds.com /32Web.html (198 words)

	Chaconne - Wikipédia
		La chaconne, ou plus rarement chacone - on trouve aussi le nom italien ciacona, est un genre musical pratiqué aux XVIIe et XVIII
		Initialement, la chaconne est une danse populaire d'origine hispanique ou hispano-américaine et la pièce musicale chantée qui l'accompagne.
		La chaconne est utilisée de façon occasionnelle dans la suite de danses, dont elle est presque toujours la pièce finale.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaconne (194 words)

	Holliger Chaconne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		De chaconne voor cello solo is Holligers bijdrage aan de reeks van twaalf composities ter gelegenheid van de zeventigste verjaardag van de Zwitserse dirigent en mecenas Paul Sacher.
		Holligers chaconne is strikt isoritmisch opgebouwd en bestaat uit zes delen, waarvan tempo,dichtheid en afwisseling in articulatie en speeltechniek gaandeweg vermeerderen.
		De utopie ligt in het conflict dat bestaat tussen een rijk gecultiveerde linker- en totaal analfabetische rechterhand techniek, waar de uitvoerder noodgewongen in een gespannen haast gespleten bewustzijnstoestand wordt gebracht.
	users.pandora.be /arne.deforce/Composer%20files/Holliger/HolchacPnote.htm (408 words)

	Bach Chaconne in D minor, Bach Prelude in D, Andante, Fugue BWV 1000, Sarabande & double, Lágrima by Tarrega
		Bach Chaconne in D minor, Bach Prelude in D, Andante, Fugue BWV 1000, Sarabande and double, Lágrima by Tarrega
		Track 4 is Bach Chaconne in D minor, (Abel Carlevaro's arr.
		Chaconne in D minor High Definition 1.74 MB The second track is Bach Prelude in D from the "Prelude, Fugue and Allegro" suite.
	www.mangore.com /nucd.html (117 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - CD review - Bach's Chaconne - Pavane ADW 7255
		Bach's magisterial Chaconne for violin (from the Partita No.2) is one of his towering achievements and it held a particular fascination for 19th.
		The serious mood is lightened by Handel's un-transcribed and quite substantial Chaconne and 21 Variations which follows.
		All the qualities of Raff's orchestral transcription (recently so ably demonstrated on CD by Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Philharmonic - Chandos CHAN 9835) are present in his piano version.
	www.raff.org /review09.htm (614 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - CD review - Bach's Chaconne - Chandos CHAN 9835
		His pioneering work is given credit by Slatkin in the CD insert note, which goes on to describe Raff as a "superb orchestrator" and his scoring of the Chaconne as "full of imaginative effects, counter melodies...and even tiny pre-echoes of Bruckner and Tchaikovsky".
		This excerpt, from the central section of the Chaconne, illustrates both the power and restraint of Raff's orchestration.
		Chandos list the Raff Chaconne transcription as the sole "premier recording" on the CD, clearly unaware that RBM beat them to it by a few months.
	www.raff.org /review07.htm (410 words)

	New York City Ballet \| NYCB Repertory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A chaconne is a dance, built on a short phrase in the bass, that was often used by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries to end an opera in a festive mood.
		This choreography, first performed in the 1963 Hamburg State Opera production of Orfeo ed Euridice, was somewhat altered for presentation as the ballet Chaconne particularly in the sections for the principal dancers.
		The second part has the spirit of a court entertainment, with formal divertissements, bravura roles for the principal dancers, and, of course, a concluding chaconne.
	www.nycballet.com /repnotes/chaconne2.html (307 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Chaconne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chaconne was of particular importance in France in the late 17th and first half of the 18th century.
		A specially celebrated example of the genre is the Chaconne from the Unaccompanied Violin Sonata in D minor (1720), by Johann Sebastian Bach.
		For a fuller definition, see Passacaglia, with which chaconne is largely synonymous.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/chac.html (84 words)

	INKPOT#89 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: HAYDN Nelson Mass. Ave Regina. Mass in F major. Various/Collegium Musicum 90/Hickox ...
		The Haydn Mass Edition on Chandos Chaconne is one of the best series of recordings the label has produced.
		To be precise, the series only involves the late masses of this 'genial' Austrian composer, all written to celebrate the nameday (effectively birthday) of the Esterházy's Princess Marie Hermenegild.
		At mid-year, the weary Haydn was aware of his requirement for the Princess' nameday celebrations, but probably due to his exhaustion did not begin work on the mass until 10 July.
	www.inkpot.com /classical/haydnmassnel.html (866 words)

	Chaconne ~ Blow, Corelli, Muffat, Pezel, Purcell / Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is one of the most exquisite recordings of Chaconnes, the most sublime (in my opinion) musical expression of 17th and 18th century.
		All nine composers show in these Chaconnes and Passacaglias how far they can go inventing and re-inventing the wheel.
		I have always enjoyed classical music, but I had never heard of Georg Muffat, or his Chaconne in G major, before.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/asinsearch_B0000057FT (300 words)

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