Another characteristic trait of a chaconne is a regularly repeating harmonic structure. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"chaconne," and worried the composer to induce him to introduce one. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Confronted with chaconne he uttered /kaKOne/, which has a quite a different meaning!. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TRAI(T).] Reference
"The Salonen suggests the Bach because it is in the form of a chaconne," explains Ms. Koh. From Wordnik.com. [A Violinist on a Solo Mission] Reference
Here, a majestic sarabande was worked out, there, a solemn chaconne, elsewhere a subtle musette or a stormy bourrée. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
The sound of the violin chaconne played on viola and transposed to a darker G minor, interwoven with Langeland improvising a keening, open-throated Ave Maria, proves strangely persuasive. From Wordnik.com. [Sinikka Langeland: Maria's Song] Reference
The opening movements were full of technical difficulties and he doubted he would ever be able to do them anything like justice, but it was the great chaconne which followed that really disturbed him. From Wordnik.com. [Did You Know Bach Had a Father?] Reference
Republic, the special steamer he had chartered to keep an engagement in North America, and his fainting fit in Moscow after the Beethoven and Brahms concertos, the Bach chaconne, and seventeen encores. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times. From Wordnik.com. [Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change] Reference
Percussion instruments also enhance the modern groove of this chaconne. From Wordnik.com. [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
Acte cinquième: scène 7: Air en rondeau-Mouvement de chaconne (1: 54) 18. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
"Hungarian Rock," a chaconne composed for harpsichord players who like to shred on a. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Kavakos begins tonight's recital with the chaconne from a solo violin partita by Bach. From Wordnik.com. [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
I know there is a video recording of Heifetz playing the chaconne but he is very old there. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Michael Jackson's attorney Peter Lopez dead from apparent suicide in Encino] Reference
He has given the greatest performance of the celebrated Bach chaconne ever heard in America. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]
La Folia; so, is Haubiel just converting the old chaconne into incense, making an Eastern event?. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
“Do you think the Greeks, whose manners we are endeavoring to depict, knew what a chaconne was?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
The recording opens with a chaconne by the Italian lutenist Andrea Falconieri who appeared at several European courts. From Wordnik.com. [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
By definition, a chaconne generally consists of a repetitive chord progression as well as a basso ostinato, or repeating bass line. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Follies d'Espagne, the solemn chaconne breaks into a delicious jota aragonesa rife with Liszt's patented wizardry in runs and flying octaves. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Lachen Verlernt" "Laughing Unlearnt", written in the form of a chaconne and accompanied by a video created by Tal Rosner. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The Mendelssohn concerto was excellently played, especially the last movement; but it was in the Bach chaconne that he proved how really good he was. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
Even the most easily identifiable element of a chaconne, a dance-related emphasis on the second of the bar's three beats, appeared only sporadically. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The Concerto for Orchestra (2002-3) is written as a chaconne, a 30 minute, five section work that speaks to Lutoslawski and Bartok's masterpieces of the same name. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
His first New-York introduction to a large general audience was at a philharmonic concert (the date of which I cannot now recall), when he played the Mendelssohn concerto and the Bach chaconne. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" and the chaconne "La Vie en Rose.". From Wordnik.com. [timesunion.com: Siena Women's Basketball] 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
At length Gluck, losing all patience, exclaimed, "chaconne! chaconne!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
But Vestris got his chaconne. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
Gluck refused to introduce a chaconne into. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
"When did the Greeks ever dance a chaconne?". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
“A chaconne!” said the enraged composer. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
"A chaconne?" cried the composer. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
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