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Ground bass

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Noun
  1. 1
    A constantly repeated bassline or harmonic pattern in a piece. countable, uncountable

    "In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune."

  2. 2
    a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated wordnet
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, bass. countable, uncountable

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