Associations to the word «Continuo»

Wiktionary

CONTINUO, noun. (music) The bass line of music, especially for a keyboard instrument, that continues throughout a work

Dictionary definition

CONTINUO, noun. A bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope