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CHACONNE (Span. chacona)
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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.