Variations on a 'Ground'

Series: In KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Michigan State University Television Professor Gomer Ll. Jones Lee Frischknecht Dr. Don Pash

Format: 16mm

Description: 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.

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)


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