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ground bass
[ beys ]
noun
Music.
- a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
ground bass
/ ²ú±ðɪ²õ /
noun
- music a short melodic bass line that is repeated over and over again
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of ground bass1
First recorded in 1690–1700
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Example Sentences
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Yet Johnson’s overall sprightliness covers a ground bass of melancholy and lament.
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She’s the calm center, the ground bass, and though she acknowledges the looser culture around her with a shy shimmy, the influence flows more strongly in the opposite direction.
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But the raucous swallows, the woman’s droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her.
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The “Goldberg†Variations, too, unfold over a ground bass, beginning with a descent from G to D, but this time in G major.
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Both use a "passacaglia" or "ground bass", and share an intensity and sobriety of mood.
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