How To Use ground bass In A Sentence
- For the ground bass of recurrent sound is poetic metre. The Times Literary Supplement
- The passacaglia, strictly speaking, pits variations over a ground bass, although most composers from Brahms on, shift the bass material around to all the voices, which Lees does as well.
- The church organist may improvise on a ground bass.
- It may dawn on you (if you don't cheat and read the liner notes first) that it's also a passacaglia, a series of variations over a ground bass.
- He produced many fine sets of variations on popular melodies and ground basses as well as stylized dance music (especially pavans and galliards).
- tweedledee" of this youngster had begun, accompanied by a booming ground bass from Elijah New, the parish clerk, who had thoughtfully brought with him his favourite musical instrument, the serpent. Stories by English Authors: England
- The church organist may improvise on a ground bass.
- The more boring details drop away into a passacaglia's inevitable ground bass, whilst the exciting become magnified beneath a glass destructive of proportion and accuracy.
- The 4th Movement, marked ‘Largo’, is a passacaglia having a series of diverse variations over a ground bass.
