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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Bassschlüssel
2fourth line at the beginning of the staff to indicate that the notes are pitched or placed in the bass. See also bass clef.
3bass, second
4See second bass.
5bass staff
6The staff having the F clef placed on the fourth line, the line next to the top, as
7bass string
8In stringed instruments, the string upon which the lowest note is played.
9bass, thorough
10A system of notation which might be called musical shorthand. The bass part of the composition is written out and the other parts, such as treble and alto, are indicated by Arabic numerals written above or below the bass notes. Each figure indicates the interval or difference in pitch between its note and the bass, and the order of the figures is according to the width of the intervals, the widest being placed at the top. Equivalent to basse chiffrée, basse continue, basso figurato, basso numerato, and synonym of continued bass.
11bass trombone
12The bass instrument of the trombones, a series of metal wind instruments used in orchestra and making the half tones by means of a slide mechanism. The bass trombone has a range from C on the second line below the bass clef to F on the first space of the treble clef.
13bass tuba
14The brass wind instrument of the tuba class, the lowest members of the saxhorn family. A cylinder horn in two forms; the one tuned to e flat is straight and the one tuned to b flat circular and passing around the neck of the performer. The tuba has four valves and gives a complete chromatic scale of about four octaves, with b flat, that is b flat on the second line of the bass clef, as its first open tone and a range up to f on the first space of the tenor clef. This instrument is used in orchestras in Germany and in military bands.
15bass, viol
16See violoncello.
17bassa, ottava (ôt-tä'-vā bās'-sā) It.
18A direction phrase, meaning that the passage is to be played an octave lower than it is written. Abbr. 8va. bassa or 8va., written below the clef.
20basset-horn
21bassanello (bäs-sä-něl'-lō) It. n.
22An obsolete wood-wind instrument similar to the bassoon. It had a double reed with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece, and the mouth was bent in a S-shape. It was built in three different sizes, bass, tenor and discant.
23Bassbläser (bäs'-blā-zěr) Ger. n.
24Bass-blower. A bassoonist.
25basse (bās) Fr.
26The bass part. See also bass.
27basse chantante (bās shāñ-tāñt) Fr.
28A flexible bass voice having barytone quality.
29basse chiffrée (bās shēf-frā') Fr.
30basse continue (bās kōn-tā'-nū) Fr.
31Continued bass. The bass part to which the accompanying parts are indicated by numbers written above and below the bass notes. The equivalent of thorough bass, continued bass, figured bass, basso continuo, basso figurato, basso numerato.
32basse-contre (bās-kōñtr) Fr. n.
33A deep bass voice with a range extending below the ordinary bass.
34basse danse (bās) Fr. n.
35The low dance; a dance much practiced by the French aristocracy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. It was danced by two persons and has a slow, gliding, graceful movement similar to the minuet, the foot being kept close to the floor at all times, hence the name. It consisted of four parts, some more lively, but no step was rapid or jumping as in many dances of that period. It was accompanied by the flute and tabour, a small drum or tambourine, both instruments being performed by one person.
36basse fondamentale (bās-fōñ-dă-māñ-tāl') Fr.
37Root bass or generator: the bass note from which the chord is built up.
38basse taille (bās tī'-yū) Fr.
39A barytone voice having bass quality.
40basset-horn
41An instrument of the clarinet family, of very beautiful rich tone, invented about 1770 and improved by Lotz of Pressburg twelve years later. It had a range of all the half tones except F sharp and A flat in the lower part from F on the first space below the bass clef to C on the second line above the treble clef, and except for the four lowest notes differed in no respect from the tenor clarinet. These four notes were obtained by means of
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