thoroughbass
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technique of improvisation and accompaniment, common in Baroque music
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It is catalogued under topics including Baroque music, Chord progressions and Musical historicism.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
A harpsichordist and a bassist play continuo for a small group of singers (the solo ensemble of the Kreuznacher Diakonie Choir [de]).
Basso continuo is a harmonic musical structure, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), that generally consisted of a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing the continuo part are called the continuo group.
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