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Continuo logo #10101) Bass 2) Bass part 3) Basso continuo 4) Figured bass 5) Thorough bass 6) Tile-based board game
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continuo logo #20001Latin, meaning: (adv.) immediately, at once.
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continuo logo #20001Latin, meaning: to join (together), to be after
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Continuo logo #21000[game] 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. Continuo won a 1995 Mensa Select games awa...
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Continuo logo #21002• (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.
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Continuo logo #20972Con·ti'nu·o noun [ It .] (Mus.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.
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Continuo logo #22284Also 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. During the Baroque period, the figured bass or continuo was commonly used by a keyboard player such as a harpsichord to provide harmonic.....
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continuo logo #21221In music, the bass line on which a keyboard player, accompanied by a bass stringed instrument, builds up a harmonic accompaniment. In 17th-century baroque music, composers wrote figures under a bass part to indicate the chords to be played (also called figured bass) rather than write out each chord in detail. This continuo part was played as a ...
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continuo logo #22288without cessation
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Continuo logo #23820An accompaniment for dry or ‘secco’ recitative, written for a harpsichord or other keyboard instrument together with a bass instrument (eg a cello). It usually follows and comments upon the dramatic action.
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continuo logo #21199a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
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continuo logo #22993(adv.) immediately, at once.
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Continuo logo #23825A small group of keyboardists and instrumentalists—usually just 3 or 4—who accompany recitatives and intimate scenes in early opera.
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