Kevin Sutton wrote:

>All of my theory teachers define the two thus.
>
>A Chaconne is based on a recurring harmonic progression.
>A Pasacaglia is based on a recurring bass line.

Yes, that's my understanding too, but it does seem as thought there are a
lot of exceptions or at least ambiguous cases.

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