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continuoor basso continuoIn Baroque music, a special subgroup of an instrumental ensemble. It consists of two instruments reading the same part: a bass instrument, such as a cello or bassoon, and a chordal instrument, most often a harpsichord but sometimes an organ or lute. Its appearance in the early 17th century reflected the radically new musical texture of accompanied melody that was especially typical of the new vocal genre of opera. The continuo (which has a counterpart in the bass and rhythm guitar of a rock band) came to be employed in virtually all ensemble music of the Baroque era. continuo 1. Music a. a shortened form of basso continuo (see thorough bass) b. (as modifier): a continuo accompaniment 2. the thorough-bass part as played on a keyboard instrument, often supported by a cello, bassoon, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Our knowledge of music in Milan in the last quarter of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century has been founded on the developments in string instruments, especially the violin, and on new genres of music written especially for these instruments--the earliest surviving examples of sonatas for violin and basso continuo were published in Concerti ecclesiastici in Milan in 1610. In Baselitz's aesthetics, then, a personally tailored Africa functions as a kind of stabilizing basso continuo for the iconoclastic capriccios of Western artistic freedom. But Hadda does not hear the basso continuo of denial and despair that runs through Singer's work, early and late. |
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