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Basso continuo
Baroque musical accompaniment / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing the continuo part are called the continuo group.
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