| 单词 |
passacaglia |
| 释义 |
‖ passacaglia|passaˈkaʎa|
[It., a. Sp. pasacalle (pasaˈkaʎe), f. pasar to pass + calle street; because often played in the streets.]
An early kind of dance tune (of Spanish origin) having a movement slower than the chaconne, generally constructed on a ground bass and written in triple time; also the dance to this.
1659Howell Vocab. Sect. 50 Giggs, salibrands, chaconas, passingalias, galiards. 1668Dryden Evening's Love ii. i, Pray let me hear it: I hope it will go to the tune of one of our Passa-calles. 1724Short Explic. For. Wds. Mus. Bks., Passacaglio, or Passacaille, or Passagillio, is a Kind of Air somewhat like a Chacoone, but of a more slow or graver Movement. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. II. 660/1 The feature which, in common with the Chaconne, has elevated the Passacaglia above the majority of dance forms, is the construction of the music on a ground bass, generally consisting of a short theme of two, four, or eight bars. 1898G. B. Shaw Perf. Wagnerite 3 There are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente. |
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