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  • I am editing a session for 'Basses' - a new track of mine, a working progress.

    Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010

  • Some others of the same Rank make their _Cadences_ in the Manner of the Basses, which is, in falling a fifth, with a Passage of Swift Notes descending gradually, supposing that by this Means they cover the

    Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

  • Basses can be subdivided into the basso cantante ("singing bass"; Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra), the comic basso buffo (Don Pasquale), or the basso profondo ("deep bass"; Osmin in The Seraglio).

    Who's who: the different voices in opera 2011

  • The Basses brought in Michael Eisner and Frank Wells to run the company.

    Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010

  • For those keeping score at home, our cable guide says the episode is titled "In the Realm of the Basses", a probable play on the controversial 1976 Franco-Japanese film In the Realm of the Senses that deals with death by erotic asphyxiation and castration.

    <i>Gossip Girl</i> Lady-Villain Ready for Return 2009

  • For those keeping score at home, our cable guide says the episode is titled "In the Realm of the Basses", a probable play on the controversial 1976 Franco-Japanese film In the Realm of the Senses that deals with death by erotic asphyxiation and castration.

    <i>Gossip Girl</i> Lady-Villain Ready for Return 2009

  • Exceptional solos performances are, of course, provided by The Three Basses: Jose Carperas, Placido Dolphingo and the incomparable Luciano Ichthyology.

    Archive 2009-01-11 Bill Crider 2009

  • In the department of the Isere, in the Var, in the two departments of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in pitch.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on account of the cold of the Basses – Alps, in a garment of brown wool, which covered his arms to the wrists.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • “Onte anaras passa?” as in the Basses – Alpes; “Puerte un bouen moutu embe un bouen fromage grase,” as in upper Dauphine.

    Les Miserables 2008

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