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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
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dance, introduced into
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Spain by the
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Moors, now obsolete . It resembles the
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Passacaglia . The word is used also of the
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music composed for this dance—a slow stately
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movement in
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time . Such a movement was often introduced into a
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sonata, and formed the conventional
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finale to an
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opera or
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ballet until the time of
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Gluck .

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