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Definition of Passacaglias
1. passacaglia [n] - See also: passacaglia
Literary usage of Passacaglias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"Among the most celebrated passacaglias may be mentioned those by Buxtehude,
Bach (B.-G., vol. xv.), Couperin, Frescobaldi (Toccate ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... embroidered amid ever varying contrapuntal devices as to become hardly
recognisable. Among the most celebrated passacaglias may be mentioned those by ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"Two passacaglias on Irish Themes, for orchestra (given by Beecham).
Piano-Concerto (given .by Beecham at English Festival) (Augener). ..."
4. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"... 'cembalo ed organo,' which comprise interesting and elaborate examples of
balletti, correnti, passacaglias, ..."
5. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"... and passacaglias, with cantatas and sonatas, and even, if you please, with a
very complete representation ..."
6. The Story of Organ Music by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1905)
"Toccatas which contain no passages can be played in quicker time than others;
but in all these cases, as also in passacaglias and ..."
7. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"marches, preludes, fugues, passacaglias, and other organ-music; has also made
numerous organ- arrangements.—A System of Technique for Pf.; ..."
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