Entertainment / Music / Figured Bass: Baroque practice consisting of an independent bass line that often includes numerals indicating the harmony to be supplied by the performer. Also thorough-bass.
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Entertainment / Music / Basso Continuo: Italian for 'continuous bass'. See figured bass. Also refers to performance group with a bass, chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ), and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon). MORE
Entertainment / Music / Double Bass: Largest and lowest-pitched member of the bowed string family. Also called contrabass or bass viol MORE
Entertainment / Music / Contrabassoon: Double-reed woodwind instrument with the lowest range in the woodwind family. Also double bassoon. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Figured Bass: Baroque practice consisting of an independent bass line that often includes numerals indicating the harmony to be supplied by the performer. Also thorough-bass. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Ground Bass: A repeating melody, usually in the bass, throughout a vocal or instrumental composition. MORE