In music a passacaglia (French: passacaille, Spanish: passacalle or pasacalle) is a musical form and the corresponding court dance. Its name derives from the Spanishpasar (to walk) and calle (street), supposedly to denote the music played by wandering musicians.
Originally a slow Italian or Spanishdance in 3/4 time, the passacaglia later came to be a instrumental work in 3/4 based on a ground (that is, a melody which repeats unchangingly throughout while other lines are freely varied). The passacaglia is very closely related to the chaconne, except that in the chaconne, the repeating melody is always in the bass (that is, it is a ground bass).
A number of passacaglia themes became well known enough to merit their own names. Many Baroque composers wrote variations on La Follia, also known as la folia and la folie d'Espagne (the folly of Spain) a chord progression apparently based on a Spanish folk melody. Composers from Jean-Baptiste Lully and Arcangelo Corelli to Sergei Rachmaninoff have used the La Follia theme. Vangelis's film score to the motion picture1492: The Conquest of Paradise used the La Follia theme.
One of the best known examples of a passacaglia in classical music is the one in C minor for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 582. A later example is the finale of Josef Rheinberger's 8th organ sonata. Perhaps the most frequently heard passacaglia, however, is the finale of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 (although Brahms did not explicitly call it a passacaglia, it follows the rules of one and the repeated figure is based on one found in Bach's Cantata No. 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich).
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La Folia (http://members.chello.nl/folia/index.html)
The Pacific coast of Ecuador is known for the amor fino, a kind of popular song, as well as a variety of dance music.
El pasacalle is a form of dance music, while the sentimental el yarabi is probably the most popular form in Ecuador.
The folk music of the northwest part of Ecuador is most famous for the marimba, a distinctive instrument most common in the provinces of Esmeraldas, Pichincha, Imbabura, Carchi and Guayas; it is a direct and virtually unchanged import from West Africa.
One of the first activities I attended was the pasacalle, a "folkloric" parade down Avenida la Ribera, which was to be held the evening of the 28th.
The pasacalle was scheduled to begin at 7:00pm the evening of the 28th, but this schedule only meant that the people in the parade would begin showing up at this designated time.
During the pasacalle, I became distracted by many of the other fishermen who were down on the shore with their caballitos.
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