Richard Pennycuick wrote: >One I've only recently found is the last movement of Britten's 2nd string >quartet, which, in the Purcellian way, he calls a chacony. I wonder whether we could class the "Dirge" from Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings a Chaconne? And when is somebody going to mention the most sublime chaconne ever written: "When I am laid to earth," from "Dido and Aeneas"? Jonathan