September 30, 2010

Classical Thursday



Today I present to you two wonderful pieces by early Baroque composers: Purcell and Buxtehude.

Each piece is a chaconne (English: chacony).

From Wikipedia: "A chaconne is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention..." Article Here.

Really nice stuff. I hope that you like them.

Purcell - Chacony in G minor, Z. 730



Buxtehude: Ciaconna en mi BuxWV 160

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