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How to use basso in a sentence

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Curiously, Holloway uses both harpsichord and organ as basso continuo instruments.
The Canadian pianist was a law unto himself, singing as he played in a grumbling basso.
He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder.
That turned the tenor of the day into a somewhat confused basso profundo, capable of little more than a hesitant adagio molto.
And, since my husband won't sing to me, I don't really know that he's a basso profundo, but his voice is rather low.
I am going to limit myself to the three concertos for four solo violins without basso continuo.
Called also thorough bass and basso continuo, it arose in the early 17th cent. in Italy as a means of notating an accompaniment.
While accompanying a visiting Hungarian basso, I turned a page and the next page was missing!
Then, during the baroque period, the harpsichordist became an essential partner, playing the basso continuo.
Dmitri had been a basso profundo singer, and to this day retains a commanding voice as well as a keen ear.
In the 17th century the development of the basso continuo led to a proliferation of fixed-bass variation types, especially ostinato dances like the passacaglia and chaconne.
They are a kind of basso ostinato for the diplomats who gather and gab.
One can even miss the basso boom of the ocean's rumpus room and its rhythm.
I was a trumpet in Army, and the basso profundo in the other two.
The basso profundo covers a range of two octaves, including an extremely low register.
But for basso, keeping a straight face during these scenes was easier said then done.
The melody, freely expanded with echos, insertions and repetitions, is presented in the soprano voice, richly ornemented over a basso continuo.
It is to be found in the basso ostinato, a repeated bass line over which a keyboard player or lutenist improvises chords and a singer or player evolves a melody.
With basso continuo, a small group of musicians would play the bassline and the chords which formed the accompaniment for a melody.
For modern performance, the realisation of the basso continuo reflects 19th century practice.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The same general elements enter into the composition of all voices, from the basso profundo to the high soprano.
Viadana is said to have been the first to use what is called a basso continuo, and even the figured bass.
Caleb fired off his revolver, and Turk bayed his basso profundo full-cry Fox salute.
Once he was a famous basso profundo, but now his voice was high and thin, and seemed already fraught with faint aerial music.
The basso profundo with the keys stood frowning at the paper Singleton had presented.
The original corno basso was a brass instrument of narrow bore with the pistons set horizontally.
It is generally accompanied by doubles or variations, and is invariably written on a ground bass or basso ostinato.
But though on that evening a basso did bleat, it may be that he was not bubonic.
The basso, on the other hand, is the personification of vocal misery, and he knows it.
For, of the four singers, only the basso had any conception of time.
The basso continuo had been in use for some time before this.
You have made just such a mistake in your otherwise beautiful Basso ostinato.
A canzone of Andrea da Basso traces in detail the corruption of the corpse of a hard-hearted fair one.
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