Chaconne

Word CHACONNE
Character 8
Hyphenation cha conne
Pronunciations /ʃaˈkɔn/

Definitions and meanings of "Chaconne"

What do we mean by chaconne?

A slow, stately dance in triple time of the 1700s. noun

The music for this dance. noun

A form consisting of variations based on a reiterated harmonic pattern. noun

An old dance or saraband, probably of Moorish or Spanish origin. noun

A musical composition in the movement of such a dance, in slow tempo, usually in triple rhythm, and properly consisting of a series of variations upon a ground-bass of eight bars' length. It closely resembles the passacaglia. noun

An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations. noun

A slow, stately Baroque dance noun

The music for such a dance, often containing variations on a theme noun

A slow, stately Baroque dance.

The music for such a dance, often containing variations on a theme.

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The word "chaconne" in example sentences

Vestris deeply regretted that the opera was not terminated by a piece they called a chaconne, in which he displayed all his power. ❋ Various (N/A)

There was something dangerous about what followed, something not unlike the edge of madness or at least of a nightmare; and although Jack recognized that the whole sonata and particularly the chaconne was a most impressive composition he felt that if he were to go on playing it with all his heart it might lead him to very strange regions indeed. ❋ Victoria Janssen (2009)

Another characteristic trait of a chaconne is a regularly repeating harmonic structure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"chaconne," and worried the composer to induce him to introduce one. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

We rename an eatery with a French name as we continue to deny that our national floral emblem its correct vernacular name, "chaconier '', derived from the French" chaconne "a medieval song/dance of France, Spain and Italy where the dancers festooned their costumes with little red flags which moved with their dance movements causing the flags to flutter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The Salonen suggests the Bach because it is in the form of a chaconne," explains Ms. Koh. ❋ Stuart Isacoff (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The familiar Welsh lullaby "All Through the Night" is the theme that underlies each movement: the first, a theme and variations, each one in a different key, the second a chaconne and then a passacaglia and, finally another set of variations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elsewhere, he uses an esclavas , a 17th-century dance developed by Mexican slaves, and a chaconne , a form in which the bass line obsessively repeats the same musical cell over and over. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2010)

During a pause in his evening letter Jack thought of telling Sophie of a notion that had come to him, a figure that might make the nature of the chaconne more understandable: it was as though he were fox-hunting, mounted on a powerful, spirited horse, and as though on leaping a bank, perfectly in hand, the animal changed foot. ❋ Victoria Janssen (2009)

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. ❋ Victoria Janssen (2009)

Here, a majestic sarabande was worked out, there, a solemn chaconne, elsewhere a subtle musette or a stormy bourrée. ❋ Eric Dickens (2009)

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. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Such a thought-train is a series of variations without a theme—a chaconne without a bass—a concerto performed with an absent soloist, where each listener is expected to infer the solo part and to hear it only in his own mind. ❋ David Gelernter (1994)

Confronted with chaconne he uttered /kaKOne/, which has a quite a different meaning! ❋ Unknown (2005)

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