George Frideric Handel's Passacaglia

1:00pm April 06, 2018

Credit: Public Domain (http://bit.ly/2zNr1R1)

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George Frideric Handel's Passacaglia is a series of wonderfully distinctive variations showing that the composer was all about that bass. In each one, Handel takes the essence of the harmonies--the bottom notes, repeated over and over--as material for dozens of creative variations.

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