basses's Usage Examples:

extemporized ad lib from a figured bass, but the music is complete with three basses.

In Der Ring des Nibelungen Wagner specifies the proportions of the string-band as 16 first and 16 second violins, 12 violas, 12 violoncellos, 8 double basses.

Following an atmospheric timpani roll, cellos, basses and bassoons play a sustained thematic line in the depths of the orchestra.

Pallioppi, Dizionari dels Idioms Romauntschs d'Engiadina ota e basses, 'c.

slapped basses, picked basses, and fretless basses.

But, when we look at the many passages in which the violas double the basses, we shall do well to consider whether there is room in the harmonic scheme for the violas to do anything else, and whether the effect would not be thin without them.

For bass, you can choose from a variety of bass sounds, such as slapped basses, picked basses, and fretless basses.

For example, it has often been said that the extent to which their orchestral viola parts double the basses is due, partly to bad traditions of Italian opera, and partly to the fact that viola players were, more often than not, simply persons who had failed to play the violin.

Electric basses - The store caries a wide range of electric bases including basses by Fender, Warwick, Music Man, Peavey and more.

Already Mozart divides his violas into two parts quite as often as he makes them play with the basses.

timpani roll, cellos, basses and bassoons play a sustained thematic line in the depths of the orchestra.

Synonyms:

pitch,

Antonyms:

wholly, stand still,