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Melody from the opening of Henry Purcell's "Thy Hand, Belinda", Dido and Aeneas (1689) with figured bass below (Playⓘ, Playⓘ with figured bass realization).
Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note. The numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, or lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) should play in relation to the bass note. Figured bass is closely associated with basso continuo: a historically improvised accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period of Classical music (c. 1600–1750), though rarely in modern music. Figured bass is also known as thoroughbass.
Other systems for denoting or representing chords include[1] plain staff notation, used in classical music; Roman numerals, commonly used in harmonic analysis;[2] chord letters, sometimes used in modern musicology; the Nashville Number System; and various chord names and symbols used in jazz and popular music (e.g., C Major or simply C; D minor, Dm, or D−; G7, etc.).
^Benward, Bruce; Marilyn Nadine, Saker (2003), Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I (7th ed.), N.Y.: Mcgraw-Hill, p. 77, ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0.
^Schoenberg, Arnold (1983), Structural Functions of Harmony (7th ed.), London: Mcgraw-Hill, pp. 1–2.
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definition, of the bass, which was figured to suggest no more than a minimal chordal outline." Improvised accompaniment over a figuredbass was a common practice...
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of a second, a fourth, and a sixth above the inverted bass of F, respectively. In figuredbass, it is referred to as a 4 2 chord. According to The American...
performers playing harpsichord would improvise chords from the figuredbass symbols beneath the bass notes of the basso continuo part and both vocal and instrumental...
root position of G-dominant seventh chord, the bass note is G, the root of the seventh chord. In figuredbass, a root-position triad has no symbol, while...
and basso continuo keyboard players improvised chord voicings based on figuredbass notation. As well, the top soloists were expected to be able to improvise...
bass part, where it may be reinforced an octave lower by the double basses. Figuredbass music of the Baroque era typically assumes a cello, viola da gamba...
from major to minor is supported by the chromatic progression ... in the bass" Structural Functions of Harmony, Schoenberg, Arnold, Faber & Faber, 1983...
original on 10 August 2013. Kentaro Miyazaki, "Kakure Kirishitan --Orasho, FiguredBass of Their Souls", 2001, Nagasaki Shimbun Shinsho (in Japanese), ISBN 4-931493-40-8...
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