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Definition of Figured bass
1. Noun. A bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played.
Definition of Figured bass
1. Noun. (music) A musical notation in which intervals, chords and harmonizations are indicated by numbers written below a given bass note. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Figured Bass
Literary usage of Figured bass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"CHAPTER II THOROUGH-BASS A Species of Musical Shorthand—Simple Method by which
the Student may Either Read or Write figured bass— The Use of Lines in ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"CHAPTER XI THOROUGH-BASS A Species of Musical Shorthand—Simple Method by which
the Student may Either Read or Write figured bass— The Use of Lines in ..."
3. The Musical World (1888)
"Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, figured bass reading was an accomplishment but
few trained musicians possessed. This was accounted for by its having ..."
4. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"Bass concertina. A concertina having the Compass of a violoncello. Bass, continued.
Buss continued through the whole piece ; the figured bass. ..."
5. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"The most interesting of these attempts was the figured bass, a sort of short-hand,
invented about 1580; this system of abbreviations, whose chief fault is ..."
6. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"figured" throughout, and it soon became the fashion to accompany everything,
vocal or instrumental, on the harpsichord from a figured bass; even if there ..."
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