September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
In the Baroque era, musicians enjoyed composing a series of variations on a particular chord progression. This progression, called “chaconne,” came from a late-16th-century Latin American dance made popular in Spain through guitar books. The actual progression changed over time, but the concept of repeating four to six chords over and over again stayed consistent through the Baroque era. Because the progression is so short, the melodic themes often stretched out across two or more iterations of the chord pattern, and the chord progression repeated up to 100 times. Eventually ...
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