ground bass

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, bass. countable,uncountable

词形变化

ground basses plural groundbass alternative
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