The Passacaglia: Lucie Skeaping traces the history and development of the dance-based form passacaglia, from its origins in Iberian street music to the great organ works by Bach. Show more Lucie ...

A passacaglia is a musical form that originated in Spain in the 17th century and is often based on a ground bass and written in triple metre. It was initially written to accompany a type of Spanish ...

To acquire a more comprehensive understanding of these musical terms it may be useful to step back a few centuries in musical history. Like most musical phrases, words, and conventions, their origins ...

The Passacaglia stems from folkloristic habits in the cities and villages of Spain, as from the 16th century, where the ordinary people spent their evenings with folk dances on simple short melodies, ...

'a triple-meter variation piece in which the upper voices continue to vary over a repeating bass line.' During the workshop I attended, by actually watching a dancer perform, I understood that the ...

The set of 15 Mystery Sonatas as they were discovered in Munich a hundred and thirty years ago concludes with a 16th sonata, not part of The Mysteries of the Rosary but an obvious adjunct to them.

Passacaglia is a group consisting of two recorders, viola da gamba and harpsichord. Who better than Telemann to provide such an ensemble with interesting and idiomatically written pieces?