Spanish musical composition and dance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries widespread throughout Europe during the Baroque, associated with other compositions and dances of this era, such as the zarabanda, the foliía, the pasacalle or the alemanda. Almost all Baroque composers recreated this kind of music. Also Juan Sebastian Bach composed a Chacona in D minor that some consider a lament after the death of his wife.
CHACONNE = dance, probably of Mexican origin, which became popular in Europe during the 17TH century. Europeans Bravio, rampant and passionate in its native form, danced more sparingly. Sometimes been assumed that the name derives from the Basque chucun, which means cute. The music, in the majority of cases, included a series of variations on a low background of eight bars. It resembles the Passacaglia, which differs only in that it lacks the aforementioned Fund.
