Spanish baroque dance in triple time.
Quiet old Spanish dance; set of variations on a continuously repeated ground bass.
Piece of music derived from a dance form, possibly of Spanish origin, in three time, constructed over a ground bass. An example is the aria “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas 1689, in which the inevitability of the bass line conveys a sense of Dido’s inescapable fate.