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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1forms of these progressions that are to be met with, and which will illustrate the fact that movement in the Bass part is almost always a filling in between one root of a chord and another
3Bass-Bar. The name of an oblong piece of wood found in all instruments of the Violin family, fixed lengthwise inside the belly in the same direction as the strings. It is fixed below the lowest string, and its purpose is to act as a supporting beam for strengthening the belly against the pressure of the left foot of the bridge, as the sound post takes that of the right foot. The need of such support will be seen by the fact that in the Violin, for instance, when the strings are turned up to concert pitch there is a resulting tension equal to a weight of 80lb.
5Bass Clarinet. A comparatively modern instrument, the largest of the Clarinet family, pitched in B or A, the former being the one most used. It sounds an octave lower than the ordinary B clarinet. The clarinet quality of tone is not so marked as in the smaller members of the group, but resembles an organ pipe of Bourdon tone.
7Bass Clef. This is placed on the 4th line of the stave, and is called the F clef, the sign really being a modification of the letter F as used centuries ago before the invention of printing. The following illustration gives the clef, and the names of the notes on the lines and in the spaces of the stave in which it is used.
9Bass Drum. The largest form of the Drum is so called. It is not tuned to produce a sound of any definite pitch, but the parchment heads are stretched to that extent as will allow of the greatest resonance being gained from the instrument when struck. When the heads are insufficiently stretched the tone becomes flabby and dull; when the tension is too great, a hard tone, of short duration, is the result, resembling the striking of a board. Music for the Bass Drum is written in the Bass clef, and C in the second space is the note usually given although, as the Drum has no definite pitch, any other note would do as well.
11Bass Solo. The name given to that portion of many marches where a melody is played by the Bass instruments, while the higher instruments, as Cornets and Tenor Horns, have an accompaniment of reiterated and after-beat notes, to which the name Trompetting is given.
13Bassoon. A wooden double reed instrument, forming the Bass of the reed family of instruments represented by the Oboe. Its Italian name is Fagotto, which means faggot, because the instrument was supposed to resemble a bundle of sticks. It is a very ancient instrument. It consists of
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