figured bass
musical notation in which numerals/accidentals show chords to be played in relation to the bass note, used in Baroque music
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figured bass
Summary
figured bass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (369 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- figured bass's image is recorded as Purcell diatonic chromaticism.png[2].
- figured bass's image is recorded as Figured bass example from BWV 443.png[3].
- figured bass's depicts is recorded as accompaniment[4].
- figured bass's depicts is recorded as bassline[5].
- figured bass's subclass of is recorded as figuring[6].
- figured bass's Commons category is recorded as Figured bass[7].
- figured bass's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/032t3[8].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[9].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[11].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
- figured bass's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
- figured bass's used by is recorded as thoroughbass[15].
- figured bass's different from is recorded as thoroughbass[16].
- figured bass's YSO ID is recorded as 9311[17].
- figured bass's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2350016[18].
- figured bass's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as figured-bass[19].
- figured bass's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i73611[20].
- figured bass's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 68101726[21].
- figured bass's Krugosvet article is recorded as kultura_i_obrazovanie/muzyka/GENERAL-BAS.html[22].
- figured bass's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C68101726[23].
- figured bass's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 398487[24].
- figured bass's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as basso-kontinuo-ecc506[25].
Why It Matters
figured bass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (369 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]