Definitions For Passacaglia

Noun

PASSACAGLIA. (countable and uncountable, plural PASSACAGLIAs) (music genre) A form of historical spanish or italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass. (music, by extension) Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics.

Coordinate terms

chaconne

Translations

Armenian: պասսակալիա Basque: {{t-needed, eu}} Catalan: cercavila, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 帕薩卡利亞 (pàsàkǎlìyà), 帕薩卡里亞 (pàsàkǎlǐyà) Esperanto: pasakaljo Finnish: passacaglia French: passacaille, f German: Passacaglia, f Greek: πασσακάλια, f Italian: passacaglia, f Japanese: パッサカリア (passakaria) Korean: 파사칼리아 Latvian: pasakalja, f Romanian: passacaglia, f Russian: пассака́лья, f, пассака́лия, f Spanish: pasacalle, m, pasacalles, m Tagalog: pasakalye Ukrainian: пасака́лія, f Uzbek: passakalya {{topics, en, Dances}}

Alternative forms

{{alt, en, passacaille, passecaille}}

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, it, passacaglia}}, from {{der, en, es, pasacalle}}, from pasar, , to pass + calle, , street.