'single key'; used on a continuo part to indicate that the notes should be played without harmony
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Tasto solo is an Italian term used in music scores, usually on the continuo part, to indicate that a note or section should be played on its own, without harmony. The phrase first appeared in music theory books in the eighteenth-century, but was used by composers such as Arcangelo Corelli before this time. C.P.E. Bach commented that, in practice, ...
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In old music, a tasto solo was a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
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