continuo

IPA: kʌntˈɪnju

(music) Synonym of basso continuo.
(historical) A member of the personal guard of the medieval and early modern Spanish or Portuguese kings.

Examples of "continuo" in Sentences

Italiano · USA: pellegrinaggio continuo sulle orme di Into the wild
Highest praise is due to the four continuo players, ever sensuous and vivid.
The strings and the continuo lutes had a fiercely tart and tangy sound, deliberately unsensual and arresting.
For opera newbies, the continuo is a bassline played continuously (as the name implies) under the recitative or vocal line.
Patricia Mabee provided informed harpsichord continuo with an opportunity to shine bright in the fifth concerto's extensive solo cadenza.
Artistic director Aapo Häkkinen anchored the ensemble from the harpsichord, providing a solid rhythmic foundation with his dynamic continuo realization.
The orchestra and continuo musicians, led by Grant Gershon, captured the spirit and swing of the music, but then, orchestra players are no strangers to Vivaldi.
The chorus of 34 and orchestra 42 players plus a continuo group of eight were superb; a group of the players even performed onstage in costume for the Dream scene.
The sextet that performed (a pair each of violins and violas, and a continuo pairing of cello and harpsichord) offered a mixed baroque program in which three string sonatas by Tomaso Albinoni were heard alongside concertos and sonatas by Bach and Vivaldi, and by the less-encountered Georg Muffat and Henricus Albicastro.