a slow song or instrumental composition of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries
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Chaconne
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a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, play…
Chacony
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(Old Eng.) a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple…
Ciacona
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Italian
slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, played…
Melic composition
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a musical composition relating to song
Pastourelles
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a slow musical composition with more than one group of simple time units in each bar
Part book
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a single vocal or instrumental part of a composition
Air
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tune, tuneful song, art song accompanied by the lute or viola da gamba
Art song
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designed to stand alone and written for the concert hall, rather than a traditional or folk song