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 Spain or Italy, is a mostly monotonous, unisex affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABT's Rewards This Season Were in the Past] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Daybreak] Reference

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 his Goldberg Variations, to recognize how artistically effective such a form, and such devices operating within the form, can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE POETRY OF THE INEFFABLE.] Reference

The Third Symphony is in two parts: the first consists of a passacaglia and fugue, and the second, a chorale and toccata.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference

The upcoming concert will consist of original and transcribed works for the bassoon ensemble, ranging from a Bach passacaglia to a Sousa march.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Events - Daily Record Evnet Calendar] Reference

The Suite in a minor has nine movements, mostly short dances, ending with a passacaglia which has an impressive wall of viol chords near the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Filename (2009) music of ostrava days live (disc 2) \04 - ligeti, györgy - concerto for violin and orchestra - iv.passacaglia. lento intenso. wav.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The music proceeds as a kind of parody in passacaglia, the same materials given over to shifting textures and rising scales and then more fluid affects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Especially memorable were the third section's haunting oboe solo, so beautifully managed by associate principal Keith Atkinson, and the superb passacaglia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

This program is made up of six of the eight dances of your See Series, all inspired by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's passacaglia, Guardian Angel Sonata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

As Adams's symphony progressed, there were audible connections, not least in the dark D minor tonality of the passacaglia mirroring the Dorian mode of the Sibelius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Bach has already exploited the relation between E Major and C-sharp Minor, and so the third movement passacaglia assumes the minor mode, the violin melody in triplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Even people who go to concerts all the time, upon being confronted with terms like chromatic harmony, passacaglia, and sonata form, may have no real idea what they mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Each is different yet linked musically by arrangements of the "Guardian Angel" passacaglia that concludes 17th-century composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern's iconic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

In the slow, mournful aria and eerily focused passacaglia he played with a rich, velvety tone and an irresistible sense of line while sacrificing nothing of Ligeti's angularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

A through-composed, one-movement work, the Symphony establishes a moody, gloomy bass line that serves as a passacaglia or ricercare, while a motif in ¾ acts as a dance-like countermelody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The last movement is a complex two part form which begins quietly and contrapuntally and become a passacaglia somewhat like the last movement of the Fifth Symphony, but with more intensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sequenza21/] Reference

The program also includes the Violin Concerto, his most often-revised work, and the Symphony No. 3, a major score that pays homage to Baroque forms: Part 1 is a passacaglia and fugue; Part 2, a chorale and toccata.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

For instance, listen to how Hindemith makes use of musical forms such as the passacaglia (No. 2), basso ostinato (No. 8), fugato (No. 9) and variations (No. 14) to evoke the weightiness and proportions behind the textual interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Sinfonia, the spookiest of all the Inventions, and rode its sliding bass line through a secret-agent opening, a section of rugged math-rock that had me thinking of King Crimson, and a grand passacaglia that drew out the tragic implications of Bach's original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

A francophile at heart, like our dear moderator here at Ionarts, Telemann ended his six-movement Quartet with a lush passacaglia that intermingled upward chromatic figures with circular shapes, performed here by exceptional musicians in blissfully in love with their craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionarts] Reference

The contrast with the following Largo – Shostakovich’s first orchestral passacaglia – could not be greater: This movement is sweet, restrained and very moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [On CD: Shostakovich 8th] Reference

This week, under the completely able fingers and bows of the String Quartet Cycle, String Quartet No. 5 combines elements of chaconne, passacaglia and theme-and-variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sequenza21/] Reference

Clever arrangements of Bach’s sinfonia from Cantata No. 29, a Handel passacaglia (from one of the keyboard suites), and Franck’s haunting “Prelude, Fugue, and Variation” were the best selections; two African-rock fusion pieces by harpist and composer Monika Stadler provided the Austrian connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [In performance: American Youth Harp Ensemble] Reference

In fact, both the Second and Third Quartets exhibit many of the compositional characteristics that would be evident in Schuman's subsequent symphonies and works for dance: movements based on baroque forms such as the passacaglia and fugue, which appear in both the Second Quartet and Part I of the Third Symphony; complex rhythmic textures; harmonic structures that create piquant dissonances; polychords that combine major and minor triads; and an overall structural unity, something that was lacking in his earlier works.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference

Intermezzo, passacaglia and fugue, Opus 127.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

"Sainte," as "Le Gibet," or the "Sonatine," as the passacaglia of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference