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Definition of Chaconne
1. n. An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.
Definition of Chaconne
1. Noun. A slow, stately Baroque dance ¹
2. Noun. (music) The music for such a dance, often containing variations on a theme ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chaconne
1. an ancient dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaconne
Literary usage of Chaconne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"The artistic or idealized chaconne, likewise, often closely resembles the modern
Passacaglia, and has not escaped being confounded with, or even regarded as ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"Mattheson,1 a contemporary authority, distinguishes four points :—the chaconne
was slower and more stately than the Passacaglia ; the former was always in a ..."
3. Well-known Piano Solos, how to Play Them by Charles W. Wilkinson, Edward Ellsworth Hipsher (1915)
"chaconne in G (Lecons III) HANDEL This is a capital piece for opening a popular
program, being easy to listen to and likely to put an audience on good terms ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"ut the feature which, in common with the chaconne, has elevated the Passacaglia
above the majority of dance forms, is the construction of the music on a ..."
5. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
""A chaconne?" cried the composer. "When did the Greeks ever dance a chaconne?
... But Vestris got his chaconne. In all likelihood Boito put the ..."
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