At 09:21 AM 12/10/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Some interesting stuff regarding the origin of Chaconne and Passacaglia >and the new world. > >http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3chacna.htm
From this website: "The Chacona (a.k.a. Passacaglia), is considered a Spanish Folk dance but originally came from Italy, created by F. Alfonso Ciacone (1540-1599), a blind Italian composer from about 1560." Sgr. Ciacone is unknown to the authors of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the premier reference work in English. Does anyone have any evidence for his existence? The Ciacona and the Passacaglia are not the same. Caroline ********************************* Caroline Usher, DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155, Box 91000 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
