Definitions for chaconne

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chaconne cha·conne

Spelling: [sha-kawn, -kon, shah-; French sha- Chaconne is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in chaconne (accehnno).

Definitions for chaconne

noun

1. an ancient dance, probably of Spanish origin, in moderate triple meter.
2. a musical form based on the continuous variation of a series of chords or of a ground bass.

Origin of chaconne

1675-85; French Spanish chacona

Examples for chaconne

When he played his solo in that second chaconne of Bach's, you could scarcely believe it was only one violin.

For about two hundred years the attempt to force this chaconne upon the public had been continuous, and it was still boring them.

Do you think the Greeks, whose manners we are endeavoring to depict, knew what a chaconne was?

“Write me the music of a chaconne, Monsieur Gluck,” said the god of dancing.

The chaconne was taken out, and the Faust Phantasie put in its stead.

He has given the greatest performance of the celebrated Bach chaconne ever heard in America.

She played the first five of the thirty-two variations of the chaconne; then she stopped.

Do you think the Greeks, whose manners we are endeavouring to depict, knew what a chaconne was?

It is almost a sacrilege to hear a little girl venturing to approach the chaconne.

"Write me the music of a chaconne, Monsieur Gluek," said the god of dancing.