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continuo::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
| Type of | bass, bass part |
Examples of continuo
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Baroque music is so similar to jazz in its reliance on a fundamental basso continuo.
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With a language coach and a different continuo team, this could have been thrilling.
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For good measure, locally based Chatham Baroque provides the continuo.
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For practical reasons the continuo organ is often shared and played with both orchestras.
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It was common to conduct from the harpsichord in pieces that had a basso continuo part.
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Historically, lutes were solo and continuo instruments and not normally grouped in ensembles.
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For modern performance, the realisation of the basso continuo reflects 19th century practice.
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In movements with winds a bassoon usually joins the continuo group.
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In the Baroque period, a sonata was for one or more instruments almost always with continuo.
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- Figured bass: a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played
- Continuo is a studio album by jazz bassist Avishai Cohen, released in 2006.
- Continuo is an abstract strategy game by Maureen Hiron first published in 1982. It is played by arranging patterns printed on a deck of 42 cards, each card being printed with a grid of 16 colored squares. The goal is to place cards so that the tiles match as many chains of color as possible. ...
- The bass line of music, especially for a keyboard instrument, that continues throughout a work
- (Continuos) Precipitation which does not cease, or ceases only briefly.
- Also known as basso continuo or figured bass, the term continuo describes a bass part in a composition, often with numbers over the notes to indicate harmonic intervals that should be played above the bass line. ...
- A set of chords continuously underliying the melody in a piece of baroque music; the instruments playing the continuo, usually cello plus harpsichord or organ.
- The small group of instruments that accompanies the recitatives in baroque music; as a general rule, the continuo group comprises cello and harpsichord or organ, although in some of the larger works of Monteverdi (Orfeo, The Coronation of Poppea ) the continuo group can comprise a dozen or more ...
- A noise like a bluebottle in a jam jar - usually played on a harpsichord.
