chaconnes

Claude Le Jeune wrote motets; the eighteenth-century masters wrote gavottes and rigadoons, forlanas and chaconnes, expressed themselves in courtly dances and other set and severe forms.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.

Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

A chaconne! "roared out the enraged musician;" we must describe the Greeks; and had the Greeks chaconnes? "

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

A chaconne! "roared out the enraged musician;" we must describe the Greeks; and had the Greeks chaconnes? "

Marie Antoinette — Complete 1787

A chaconne! "roared out the enraged musician;" we must describe the Greeks; and had the Greeks chaconnes? "

Marie Antoinette — Volume 03 1787

Had, then, the Greeks, whose manners we are to represent, chaconnes? "

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757