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Definition of Chaconnes
1. chaconne [n] - See also: chaconne
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaconnes
Literary usage of Chaconnes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... and chaconnes became a favourite exercise for contrapuntal skill. It U somewhat
difficult to ascertain in what the difference between these two dance ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... and chaconnes became a favourite exercise for contrapuntal skill. It is somewhat
difficult to ascertain in what the difference between these two dance ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"... belles chaconnes, ces Folies d'Espagne,' which the son of the seneschal of
... and not the treble part, was the ' air,' just as it is in the chaconnes ..."
4. The Evolution of the Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1906)
"... for orchestral instruments, and the long chaconnes for harpsichord alone.
Handel was too great a genius to be able to help breaking out occasionally ..."
5. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"There are an enormous number of them, and of every size; from a few bars, to the
extremely long and elaborate chaconnes which nearly always come close to ..."
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