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.