Curiously, Holloway uses both harpsichord and organ as basso continuo instruments. |
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The Canadian pianist was a law unto himself, singing as he played in a grumbling basso. |
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He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder. |
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That turned the tenor of the day into a somewhat confused basso profundo, capable of little more than a hesitant adagio molto. |
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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. |
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I am going to limit myself to the three concertos for four solo violins without basso continuo. |
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Called also thorough bass and basso continuo, it arose in the early 17th cent. in Italy as a means of notating an accompaniment. |
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While accompanying a visiting Hungarian basso, I turned a page and the next page was missing! |
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Then, during the baroque period, the harpsichordist became an essential partner, playing the basso continuo. |
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Dmitri had been a basso profundo singer, and to this day retains a commanding voice as well as a keen ear. |
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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. |
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They are a kind of basso ostinato for the diplomats who gather and gab. |
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One can even miss the basso boom of the ocean's rumpus room and its rhythm. |
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I was a trumpet in Army, and the basso profundo in the other two. |
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The basso profundo covers a range of two octaves, including an extremely low register. |
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But for basso, keeping a straight face during these scenes was easier said then done. |
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The melody, freely expanded with echos, insertions and repetitions, is presented in the soprano voice, richly ornemented over a basso continuo. |
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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. |
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With basso continuo, a small group of musicians would play the bassline and the chords which formed the accompaniment for a melody. |
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For modern performance, the realisation of the basso continuo reflects 19th century practice. |
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Then, impelled to some gesture, he raised his voice and in one of his first basso notes called boomingly and without reticence for the waiter. |
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The basso profondo sobs and shouts, the tenors stutter, shriek and expostulate, the sopranos rush up and down their scales, uttering the very sounds of semi-comic disaster Kerbel's words describe. |
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Having a sonority approaching that of the contemporary harpsichord, it was used as a basso continuo instrument in 17th-century chamber-music ensembles. |
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The Moor Hassan, a basso buffo, appears as the comic character in both Schiller's tragedy and Beauquier's libretto. |
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The French cantatas written for one voice and basso continuo and few instruments resembles a short piece of tragedy in music just as much as the Italian cantata resembles a fragment of a serious opera. |
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Tim Ivory, the crewman, complied, and Captain Whyte sounded the surprisingly high whistle, an intriguing Irish tenor where a landlubber might have expected a basso profundo. |
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His ¼uvre includes compositions for larger ensembles of soloists, choir and orchestra, as well as smaller works for voices accompanied only by a basso continuo. |
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The greatest and probably the most prolific composer of the cantata was Alessandro Scarlatti, who left behind over 600 of them, most written for voice and basso continuo. |
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In the title of Bertouch's sonata collection, the ensemble is given as two violins and basso continuo, but the instrumentation must not be interpreted too literally. |
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While the harpsichord was still used in basso continuo accompaniment in the 1750s and 1760s, it fell out of use in the end of the century. |
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Baroque music is characterized by the use of complex tonal counterpoint and the use of a basso continuo, a continuous bass line. |
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It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo. |
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A basso continuo ensemble is joined in the ritornellos by equal treble instruments, minimally two solo violins, and there are no independent instrumental pieces. |
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The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters. |
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Polish composers from this period focused on baroque religious music, concertos for voices, instruments, and basso continuo, a tradition that continued into the 18th century. |
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But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him. |
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Basso is qualified as an aeronautical engineer, having worked in the United States for NASA near Washington. |
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The Concerto in D for Traverso and the Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings, and Basso Continuo are among Telemann's most famous works. |
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Basso looked very good in the Giro and has improved against the clock since last year. |
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Basso relievo, low relief or bas-relief, is used when the scale of projection is very much less than that of the other dimensions and there is no undercutting at all. |
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It is hard to believe he was a Basso Profundo from this recording. |
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Basso recalled Alleman as a fun-loving man who loved the Heart Attack Grill. |
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