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Definition of Double bass

1. Noun. Largest and lowest member of the violin family.

Definition of Double bass

1. Noun. (''music'') The largest stringed instrument of the violin family. ¹

2. Noun. The deepest of all male voices. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Double bass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"MT Ed. Nanny, Double-bass soloist at the Opera-Comique, considers that performers on this instrument should practice the high notes up to G, and he tells of ..."

2. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"The functions of the 'cello in the orchestra are manifold ; usually it gives, reinforced by the double-bass, the bass of the harmony; this is its natural ..."

3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"THE double bass Both natural and artificial harmonics are possible on the ... THE double bass is the largest of the stringed instruments played with a bow, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"then being built, the double bass viol was used as a sub-bass. For this purpose the three highest strings were probably soon found to be useless, ..."

5. What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study in Music History and by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer (1913)
"... STRING CHOIR VIOLIN VIOLONCELLO double bass VIOLA VIOLIN Lesson III The String Choir The string choir is called the ..."

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