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An instrumental musical composition consisting of variations usually on a ground bass in moderately slow triple time.

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  • Mr. Millepied's effort, set to Nico Mulhy's moody, fully orchestrated score based on the "passacaglia," a stately Baroque-era musical form rooted in court dance from...
  • The visions are set in the Opera House on Kobol...the same one Baltar and Head Six projected into in that beautiful scene with the passacaglia in the score.
  • One has only to think of the overwhelming pathos and power of a piece like Bach's C-minor passacaglia, or the poignancy of the return of the opening theme at the end of...
  • The Third Symphony is in two parts: the first consists of a passacaglia and fugue, and the second, a chorale and toccata.
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