单词 | alberti bass |
释义 | Alberti bassn. Music. Esp. in keyboard music: a style of bass accompaniment consisting of broken chords, the notes being played in a repeated pattern in the order lowest, highest, middle, highest; a bass part written or performed in this style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > accompaniment accompaniment1697 obbligato1825 Alberti bass1845 vamp1882 backing1940 comp1946 comping1949 1845 Athenæum 8 Feb. 157/1 It is the nature of forms, however agreeable and captivating, to become antiquated—witness Handel's closes, and the Alberti bass, and Rossini's flourishes. 1868 Chambers's Encycl. I. 430/1 Bass-chords thus treated form an Alberti Bass. 1940 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 9 Apr. 20/1 The Alberti basses were too subdued. 1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) 93/2 It is not very probable that he [sc. Domenico Alberti] actually invented the ‘Alberti Bass’,..but he certainly brought it into undue prominence in his sonatas. 1996 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. h32/4 His Saraband, while never making fun of the genre, injects a repetitive Alberti-bass accompaniment with a jolt of jive. 2008 C. Wright Listening to Western Music xv. 168 Mozart used an Alberti bass at the beginning of his famous C major piano sonata. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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