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If a stereotypically "classic" chaconne may be described, it is in 's G Minor Clavier Suite ).--> If we accept the distinction of a chaconne as variations on a harmonic progression, often this harmonic progression may involve a recurrent bass line ( Ground Bass ), but this bass line -- let alone the Chords involved -- may not always be present in exactly the same manner, although the general outlines remain understood. ( Handel's "Chaconne" in G minor for keyboard has only the faintest relationship to the understood form.) The ground bass, if there is one, may typically descend stepwise from the Tonic to the Dominant pitch of the Scale , or the harmony may emphasize the Circle Of Fifths or a derivative pattern thereof. One of the best known, if not most masterful, examples of the chaconne is the final movement from the Violin Partita In D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach , a 13-minute work that takes a plaintive four- Bar phrase through a continuous Kaleidoscope of musical expression, in both major and minor Modes . (Bach's '' Goldberg Variations '' are also frequently reckoned to constitute a multi-movement chaconne, although Bach did not explicitly label them as such.) After the Baroque period, the chaconne fell into decline, though the ''32 Variations in C minor'' by Ludwig Van Beethoven belong to the form. Johannes Brahms kept the form alive in the fourth (i.e., last) movement of his Symphony No. 4 . EXAMPLES OF CHACONNES
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