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Definition of Ground bass
1. Noun. A short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated.
Definition of Ground bass
1. Noun. (music) The repetition of a bassline or harmonic pattern as the basis of a piece underneath variations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Bass
Literary usage of Ground bass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Thereal type of movement constructed on a ground-bass has a decided character of
its own, as the obstinate reiteration of a good figure is necessarily a ..."
2. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"The Ground-bass, or, as it is more universally called, the basso ostinato (persistent
bass), differs from the Ground-motive only in length. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"He also uses it in the finale of his'Papillons,'op. г. [EP' ground bass. ...
and of this order of form a ground bass, which consisted of constant repetition ..."
4. Music by Henry Charles Banister (1887)
"ground bass. 244. THE notes of a chord may be played successively, instead of
simultaneously. This is termed an ARPEGGIO ..."
5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"Another form which was more obviously allied to the eets of variations, and indeed
can in some case« hardly be distinguished from them, was the ground-bass ..."
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