At 11:04 PM -0800 2/25/06, Ryan Beard wrote:
Hi All,
Hoping you can help me by contributing to the
following list of chaconnes and passacaglias currently
in my iTunes library. I would love to know about any
classical piece or movement of a larger work that has
a ground bass. Even if just a portion of the movement
is chaconne- or passacaglia-like. Example: the 3rd
movt of the Barber Cello concerto listed below.
Chances are I already have recordings of them, but
they just slipped my mind when labeling the pieces. I
really like these types of pieces and want to get more
examples of them. I'm not really even concerned if
it's technically a chaconne or passacaglia. Thanks!
Hope my abbreviations don't confuse you!
Ummm, I'm coming late to this thread, but don't I see an assumption
that any "ground bass" is a "chaconne" or "passacaglia"? And isn't
that rather a broad assumption, not to mention a real confusion in
terms? And no, I can never remember what makes something either a
chaconne or a passacaglia, except that for starters I believe that
both were dance forms first.
In any case, if what you're looking for is really pieces built on a
ground bass, Monteverdi specialized in them, there's a half dozen or
more 16th century dance basses, and you'd have to go back to the 13th
century to include the "Sumer" canon! <bad joke warning!> The
latter is a canon or round over a repeated double pes or ground,
history's first example of a Ground Round!
John
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