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chaconne 1. a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass 2. Archaic a dance in slow triple time probably originating in Spain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This surface burlesque, however, cloaks Morris's great musical sensitivity and parodic flair, in which musical jokes of endless chaconnes and animalistic squawks of sound are sweetly echoed in a great swamp processional of amphibians with heads darting, cheeks puffing silently in and out, and bodies undulating as they sip from the water bowl of life. But Evans was probably at his best in Alleyne's The New Blondes, a severely elegiac piece set to two Pachelbel chaconnes (in F and in D minor). |
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