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Passacaglia - Origins and features | | Passacaglia - Origins and features: Encyclopedia II - Passacaglia - Origins and features | | Originally a slow Italian or Spanish dance in 3/4 time, the passacaglia later came to be an instrumental work in 3/4 based on a ground (that is, a melody which repeats unchangingly throughout while other lines are freely varied). The passacaglia is very closely related to the chaconne, except that in the chaconne, the repeating melody is always in the bass (that is, it is a ground bass).
Today, the term passacaglia is often used to denote a piece (not even necessarily in 3/4 time) which has a fixed bass line (ground bass) or ch ...
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Passacaglia - Origins and features
Originally a slow Italian or Spanish dance in 3/4 time, the passacaglia later came to be an instrumental work in 3/4 based on a ground (that is, a melody which repeats unchangingly throughout while other lines are freely varied). The passacaglia is very closely related to the chaconne, except that in the chaconne, the repeating melody is always in the bass (that is, it is a ground bass).
Today, the term passacaglia is often used to denote a piece (not even necessarily in 3/4 time) which has a fixed bass line (ground bass) or chord progression (sometimes both) that is repeated consecutively throughout most or all of the piece. In this sense, it is little different from the (often alternative) name chaconne. The ground bass or chord progression usually lasts 8 or 16 bars, and forms a complete musical sentence.
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