The ground bass, tonally unstable, is initially introduced by the trombone, as the violin recalls its lyrical theme from the first movement.
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His earliest works were entirely instrumental pieces and employed typical baroque elements such as ground basses, canons at the octave and fugal treatments.
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It is presumably from a live performance and features a backing track of harpsichord ground bass and several layers of theremin textures presumably emulating strings.
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The "'passamezzo antico "'is a ground bass or chord progression that was popular during the Italian Renaissance and known throughout Europe in the 16th century.
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As the finale, Britten uses a passacaglia : a set of variations on a ground bass, in the tradition of the Baroque chaconnes by Bach.
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It lilts close to the folklore of gaiety and disaster, while all the time a ground bass grunts out of separate territories : This is mine.
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His harpsichord dances are of three types : dances in triple meter, dances in triple meter paired with " saltarellos, " and pieces which use a ground bass.
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In addition to his chorale preludes, he wrote numerous fugues, suites of dances ( which were often in a cyclic form, sharing a common ground bass ) and fantasias.
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Dido's Lament opens with a descending chromatic fourth line, the ground bass, which is repeated eleven times throughout the aria, thus structuring the piece in the form of a ciaccona.
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Pachelbel's Canon thus merges a strict polyphonic form ( the canon ) and a variation form ( the chaconne, which itself is a mixture of ground bass composition and variations ).
