The bassocontinuo had been in use for some time before this.
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In the background Christine, the cook, provide a bassocontinuo on a chopping board full of onions.
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The bassocontinuo broke off.
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The innovations of the Florentine reformers included also the invention of thorough bass, or the bassocontinuo, as the Italians call it.
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This four-movement sonata is a virtuoso quartet for two oboes, bassoon and bassocontinuo composed in the Italian style, alternating Largo and Allegro movements.
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But it was in 1602 that he published his "Cento concerti ecclesiastici a 1, a 2, a 3, e a 4 voci, con il bassocontinuo per sonar nell' organo."
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He will probably choose either the Variations on the Bassocontinuo of Bach's Cantata "Weinen, sorgen, seufzen, klagen" ("Weeping, grieving, sighing, lamenting")-orthe BACH-Fugue.