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CHACONNE (Span. chacona)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 786 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHACONNE (Span. chacona), a slow dance, introduced into Spain by the Moors, now obsolete. It resembles the Passacaglia. The word is used also of the music composed for this dance—a slow stately movement in time. Such a movement was often introduced into a sonata, and formed the conventional finale to an opera or ballet until the time of Gluck.
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