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Definition of Thorough bass

Thorough bass
Thorough bass Thor"ough bass` (Mus.) The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
Thorough bass
Bass Bass, n. [F. basse, fr. bas low. See Base, a.] 1. A bass, or deep, sound or tone. 2. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part in a musical composition. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. [Written also base.] Thorough bass. See Thorough bass.

Meaning of Thorough bass from wikipedia

- Figured b**** is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a b**** note. The numerals and symbols (often accidentals)...
- a day job, he is best known for his The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-B**** (1931), described as the finest piece of musicography ever produced...
- Thorough Guides, late-Victorian travel guides HMS Thorough (P324), British submarine 1942–62 Thorough-b****, a kind of musical notation in which numerals and...
- no more than a bare sketch called a figured b**** (or thorough b****). The figured b**** consisted of a b**** line written in normal staff notation, but marked...
- practice of thorough b****, or b****o continuo, where it provided an easy way to find which chord could accompany each note of the scale in the b****, particularly...
- Feltham Danneley's 1820 Introduction to the Elementary Principles of Thorough B**** and classical Music. A search in Google Books gives at least three uses...
-  68, ISBN 0-03-077495-0. Arnold, F.T. The art of accompaniment from a thorough-b****, Vol. 1, p. 314. ISBN 0-486-43188-6. quoted in Beach, David (1967)....
- in BWV2a BWV 1088 – "So heb ich denn mein Auge sehnlich auf" (arioso for b****), No. 20 in Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (pasticcio P****ion oratorio);...
- General B****e (thorough-b**** rules I) BWV 1134 – Precepts and Principles For Playing the Thorough-B**** or Accompanying in Four Parts (thorough-b**** rules II)...
- larger vocal works hymn melodies for which Bach composed or improved a thorough b**** accompaniment, for instance as included in Georg Christian Schemelli's...