bassoadj.n.
Music.
= bass adj. 1.
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bassa1500
thoroughbass1749
basso1818
basso-profundo1860
basso cantante1876
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bass1591
basso1818
basso-profundo1860
bassist1870
basso cantante1876
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1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxi. 16 Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 554/1 The minor basso part..was given to Kindermann.
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basso-buffo n. /-ˈbuffo/ [Italian, = comic bass] a bass singer who plays the comic part in opera.
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buffo1764
primo buffo1826
basso-buffo1909
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. Basso-buffo.
1960 Times 15 July 16/3 Mr. Forbes Robinson..may seem an unlikely basso buffo.
basso cantante n. /-kanˈtante/ [Italian, 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > bass
bassa1500
thoroughbass1749
basso1818
basso-profundo1860
basso cantante1876
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer by type of voice > [noun] > bass
bass1591
basso1818
basso-profundo1860
bassist1870
basso cantante1876
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 52/1 Basso cantante.
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 11 Oct. 2/3 He was by no means the deep, powerful basso cantante his brother Edouard now is.
1916 G. B. Shaw in Nation 6 May 158/1 A good rough basso cantante.
1963 Times 28 Feb. 16/2 Voice that seemed most like a basso cantante.
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basso continuo n. thorough-bass (see thoroughbass n. 1a).
basso ostinato n. /-ostiˈnato/ [Italian, 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. 6c, Compounds 2a); also transferred.
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bourdonc1400
burden1594
bassus1605
thoroughbass1632
bass1666
ground bass1685
continuo1724
continued bass1728
figured bass1786
walking bass1825
basso ostinato1876
bass line1894
bottom1936
bottom line1963
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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 211/1 The connecting link between one form of the falso-bordone and the basso ostinato.
1935 A. Galsworthy in J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (U.K. ed.) 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.
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basso-ripieno n. (cf. alto ripieno n. at alto n.2 and adj. Compounds 1) a bass part used only occasionally in a grand chorus.
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