Usually means: Baroque musical form, variations, bass.
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  1. passacaglia: Merriam-Webster
  2. passacaglia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passacaglia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passacaglia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Passacaglia, passacaglia: Wordnik
  6. passacaglia: Wiktionary
  7. passacaglia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. passacaglia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. passacaglia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Passacaglia, passacaglia: Dictionary.com
  11. passacaglia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Passacaglia (Godowsky), Passacaglia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Passacaglia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Passacaglia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. passacaglia: FreeDictionary.org
  16. passacaglia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. passacaglia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. passacaglia: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passacaglia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (passacaglia)

noun:  (music) A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass.
noun:  (music, by extension) Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics.

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