basso continuo: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	figured bass • thoroughbass • continuo

Topics

musical notation harmony accompaniment bass cadence key ground bass microtonal music chromaticism appoggiatura drone consonance and dissonance chord polytonality

Key People

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Emilio de’ Cavalieri

Italian composer

Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford

Henry Lawes

English composer

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Agostino Agazzari

Italian composer

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