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Definition of Basses
1. bass [n] - See also: bass
Literary usage of Basses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... central Pyrenees, in the department of the basses-Pyre'ne'es, in the valley
of the Meuse in Belgium, and in several other localities needless to Fio. 8. ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1857)
"DOUBLE-basses. There are two kinds; those with three, and those with four strings.
Those with three strings are tuned in fifths. Those with four, are tuned ..."
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