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continuo Mus.|kənˈtɪn(j)uːəʊ| = basso continuo; also, an instrument or instruments playing this.
1724Short Explic. For. Words Mus. Bks. 24 Continuo, for this see the Words basso continuo. 1740Grassineau tr. S. de Brossard's Mus. Dict. 44 Continuo, signifies the thorough Bass, as Basso continuo is the continual or thorough Bass. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 151/2 In the score of the ‘Matthäus Passion’ of Bach..in the recitative a single line and figures is given for the ‘continuo’ alone. 1942E. Blom Music in Eng. iii. 41 These harmonic instruments thus began casually to take on the function they or their descendants assumed quite regularly in the next two centuries under the name of continuo. |