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• “Mr. LISLEVAND: Well, this is all music based on what we call basso spinato (ph), obstinate (ph) basses.”

  NPR: Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'

• “Ludovico Grossi, called Viadana from the place of his birth, seems to have been the first to use the term basso continuo and on the authority of Prætorius and other writers was long credited with the invention of the thing itself.”

  Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

• “These types of roles, and their singers, were eventually called basso buffo, and few composers were better at writing these parts than Donizetti also provided a generous number of hilarious examples.”

  News

• “Deep, rich and sonorous, it was the kind of basso profundo that ricocheted around the tile walls with stunning clarity, like the Whispering Gallery atop St. Paul's Cathedral.”

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• “Deep, rich and sonorous, it was the kind of basso profundo that ricocheted around the tile walls with stunning clarity, like the Whispering Gallery atop St. Paul's Cathedral." has to be the most eloquent writing on the topic I have ever read.”

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• “She’s done some interesting BL under the penname basso (no caps – trés avant-guarde); perhaps if these two do well someone will pick up Amato Amaro or Orso e Intellettuale.”

  Peeking at IKKI

• “pictures" would probably be called basso-relievos.”

  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

• “There is the continuous shake, handed on from instrument to instrument, the slashing figure of the upper strings, the kind of basso ostinato, conventionally indicating the galloping of horses, and the chief melody, a mere bugle-call, altered by a change of rhythm into a thing of superb strength.”

  Richard Wagner

• “In two or three of the apartments, were rudely-carved and clumsy figures of shields, in a kind of basso-relievo on the painted wainscoat; and over several of the chimney-pieces were arched niches, in which were crosses, old Romish bishops with their crosiers; — friars, some headless, some armless, with mutilated rosaries.”

  Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel

• “Outside my window it's tranquil, quiet, only the hum of tires on the highway over yonder as a kind of basso continuo, the occasional bird song I can't identify [I'm no John Clare, you know].”

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