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Continuo   Listen
noun
Continuo  n.  (Mus.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Continuo" Quotes from Famous Books



... cum fide agatis, vestra virtute, florentem Christi rempublicam conspiciamus; si negligenter et cupide, ut cujus rei adhuc reliquiae nonnullae supersunt, illae continuo ita tollantur, simul ac calumniari ac male agere ceperitis, ut ne vestigia quidem ullius sanctitatis apud vestras quidem partes posteris nostris ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 • Various

... they came to the last lines Kunz would ofttimes join in, taking the bass part or continuo to the melody. Otherwise he kept modestly in the background, for since he had come to know that Herdegen and Ann were of one mind he waited on her as a true and duteous squire, while he was now more silent than in past time, and in his elder brother's presence almost dumb. Yet at this ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers



Words linked to "Continuo" :   basso continuo, figured bass



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