basso continuo
basso continuo (It.). Continuous bass. Figured bass from which in concerted mus. of the 17th and 18th cents. the cembalist or organist played. Doubled the lowest v. part. Term often shortened to continuo. To ‘play the continuo’ does not mean to play a particular instr., but to play this variety of bass.
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