Friday Night Organ Pachelbel Con't: the Ciacona

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

A Ciacona (Italian) or Chaconne (French) 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 which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention. By the End of the 18th century it had fallen into disuse and was considered archaic. It did however morph as a style into the passacaglia. Of course what goes around comes around. The Ciacona was “re-discovered” in the 20th century and everyone from Benjamin Britten, to Gustav Holtz jumped back on the bandwagon

We continue with our immersion into Pachelbel’s organ music. Tonight we have a pair of Ciacona both of which are played by Wolfgam Rubsam, at the Holzhey Organ, Weissenau.

The first is in F minor.

The second in D minor.

[JVBParticipant]

Pp bro. How many Guinness deep are you ? Don’t lie !!

Peace is > piece.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

And here is a neat article with pics of the organ itself if anyone is interested.

http://www.johnboersma.nl/holzhey3-english.html

[MarketWatcherParticipant]

+1 Educational as always. /and over my head/

[Anonymous 42]

PistolPete wrote:

And here is a neat article with pics of the organ itself if anyone is interested.

I’d like to scrap that f~~~er for the brass! <sarc/off>

Hey Blade, Check out this awesome video of jet fighters done to THUNDER STRUCK!

[bladeParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Hey Blade, Check out this awesome video of jet fighters done to THUNDER STRUCK!

That was sick . The tiny part of the clip with the mirages flying threw the desert was used in that crazy tusken pilot the israelies had a hard time taking down .
That was a great little story that sticks in my head like victor belenkos story .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[GregB0Participant]

Thanks for sharing Pete, must admit to liking both selections very much.

We will have to forcibly separate Tower from his blow torch. Whack a Tower time.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

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