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ground bass
[ beys ]
noun
, Music.
- a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
ground bass
/ beɪs /
noun
- music a short melodic bass line that is repeated over and over again
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ground bass1
First recorded in 1690–1700
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Example Sentences
And this voice was accompanied by a deep and monotonous murmur, and by the ground bass of the daraboukkeh.
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It is the ground-bass of love, however transcendentalised, and whether it give birth to children or ideas.
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It is generally accompanied by doubles or variations, and is invariably written on a ground bass or basso ostinato.
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The main characteristic of the bag-pipe is the drone ground bass which sounds without intermission.
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By a Ground Bass is meant a theme, continually repeated, in the lowest voice, each time with varied upper parts.
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