{"id":25604,"date":"2015-02-13T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=25604"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:22:01","slug":"classical-lexicon-basso-continuo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/02\/13\/classical-lexicon-basso-continuo\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASSICAL LEXICON | Basso Continuo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/BassoContinuo.jpg\" alt=\"BassoContinuo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/BassoContinuo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/BassoContinuo-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Basso Continuo<\/span> | Musical term, a.k.a\u00a0&#8220;continuous bass&#8221;, &#8220;continuo&#8221; | A type of musical accompaniment used in the baroque era (1600-1750), where\u00a0composers\u00a0would write melodies\u00a0and accompany\u00a0the them\u00a0by using a\u00a0bass instrument such as a cello or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viol\" target=\"_blank\">viola da gamba<\/a>. They would often\u00a0incorporate a\u00a0keyboard instrument such as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harpsichord\" target=\"_blank\">harpsichord<\/a>. The development of basso continuo is an important\u00a0foundation of Western music, and its influence leads all the way up to the modern-day rock band. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTGVOvTv0zE\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for an example.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Usage<\/span> | &#8220;Baroque music would not be as interesting, if it were not for its use of basso continuo to provide a harmonic foundation\u00a0for the music to ride upon&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basso Continuo | Musical term, a.k.a &#8220;continuous bass&#8221;, &#8220;continuo&#8221; | A type of musical accompaniment used in the baroque era (1600-1750)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,5304],"tags":[5305],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/BassoContinuo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-6EY","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25604"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25632,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25604\/revisions\/25632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25604"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}