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‖ basso, a. and n. Mus.|ˈbasso|
[It.:—late L. bassus: see base a.]
= bass a. 3, n.5 1, 2.
1817Byron Beppo xxxii, Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wish'd him five fathom under the Rialto. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 554/1 The minor basso part..was given to Kindermann.
Hence, basso-buffo |-ˈbuffo| [It., = comic bass], a bass singer who plays the comic part in opera; basso cantante |-kanˈtante| [It., lit. ‘singing bass’], a male voice of fine quality and power of expression in the upper register of the bass range; also, a singer having such a voice; basso continuo, thorough-bass (see bass n.5 5); basso ostinato |-ostiˈnato| [It., lit. ‘persistent bass’], a musical structure in which a figure is repeated successively throughout a work, with or without variation, usually in the bass part; ground-bass (cf. ground n. 6 c, 18 a); also transf.; basso-ripieno (cf. alto-ripieno), a bass part used only occasionally in a grand chorus.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl., Basso-buffo. 1960Times 15 July 16/3 Mr. Forbes Robinson..may seem an unlikely basso buffo.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 52/1 Basso cantante. 1889G. B. Shaw in Star 11 Oct. 2/3 He was by no means the deep, powerful basso cantante his brother Edouard now is. 1916― in Nation 6 May 158/1 A good rough basso cantante. 1963Times 28 Feb. 16/2 Voice that seemed most like a basso cantante.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 211/1 The connecting link between one form of the falso-bordone and the basso ostinato. 1935A. Galsworthy in J. Galsworthy End of Chapter Foreward p. v, This is not by any means the whole of the plan, or story, but is a sort of basso ostinato to it. |