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Chaconne
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(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 4 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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chaconne'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/chaconne.html. 1910.