II.Handel Organ Concerto Op.7 N.5 HWV 310 - II.Andante larghetto e staccato

[rossyxan]

Indeed, Bb-F-Gm-Dm-Eb-Bb-Eb-F

[TomMinderson]

Pachelbel "D" in there?

[UnoriginalComposer]

I just cant get over the Bb minor variation. I LOVE THAT D FLAT! and how the organist changes the timbre to obnoxious tinny biting sound. It's too perfect to even be real.

[Merryjest]

Would it be correct to say that the form of this movement is that of a Passacaglia?

[UnoriginalComposer]

@Merryjest I think its chaconne. I THINK that passacaglias are usually in 3.

[pianiplunker]

@UnoriginalComposer

Technically this is a passacaglia. Historically both passicaglia and Chaconnes are in 3 but a passacaglia is a set of variations over a short base line. A chaccone is fully harmonized from the start. Handel wrote a common time passacaglia in his harpsichord suite #7 while all his chaconnes are in 3.