Variations on a 'Ground'
- Date
1959
- Summary
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Discusses the type of variation form known as passacaglia in ·which the theme is a short pattern in the bass. Repeating this theme over and over again, more or less exactly, provides a ground for the variations above it. Illustrates with Purcell's Lament of Dido and Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor, both played in full.
- Contributors
Michigan State University Television; Professor Gomer Ll. Jones; Lee Frischknecht; Dr. Don Pash
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genres
Educational; Music
- Subject
Music--Study and teaching
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Other Identifiers
Other: GR00465655; MDPI Barcode: 40000003095074
Access Restrictions
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