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A continuous variation form of the Baroque, similar to the passacaglia, based on the chord progression of a late 16th-century dance imported into Spain and Italy from Latin America. Usually in triple meter and major mode, the dance had a few stereotyped bass lines and a basic series of chords (I - V - IV - V) that acted as melodic or melodic-harmonic ostinatos (New Harvard Dictionary of Music)
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