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Definition of Continuo
1. Noun. A bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played.
Definition of Continuo
1. n. Basso continuo, or continued bass.
Definition of Continuo
1. Noun. (music) The bass line of music, especially for a keyboard instrument, that continues throughout a work ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Continuo
1. a type of instrumental part [n -UOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Continuo
Literary usage of Continuo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A practical introduction to Latin prose composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1844)
"308. g) continuo after a negative is sometimes equivalent to ' without exception'
... If any one is poor, he is not immediately (continuo J) miserable. ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"By consequence, necessarily, of course: continuo sic collige, quod, elc., ...
non continuo, si ... sum sicarius, it does not follow that: forsitan non ..."
3. Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works by Edward Joseph Dent (1905)
"DS Another setting for S.solo,SATB, 2 violins and continuo. ... ATB, 2 violins,
viola, 2 oboes and continuo. Cas. Tu es Petrus, SATB, SATB, and organ. ..."
4. Publications by English Historical Society (1841)
"... et continuo castra movens apud sanctum ... t er a conventu concessum
fuisset,continuo post capitulum in claustro cum paucis ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"In 1616 Philips also published with Phalèse at Antwerp his ' Deliciae Sacrae
Binis et Ternis Vocibus, cum Basso continuo ad Organum,' dedicated to the ..."
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