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Continuo

Technique of improvisation and accompaniment, common in Baroque music

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    Short and fundamental instructions for learning thorough bass Wherein the whole System is laid open and thereby many new & important Discoveries made, by means of which a person may soon attain to a compleat understanding both of the theory & practice of Thorough Bass For greater plainness digested into ye Form of Question and Answer by John Jasper Heck

    Heck, Johann Caspar, b. 1740. | Date: 1775?]
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    A plain and compendious method of teaching thorough bass , after the most rational manner. With proper rules for practice. The examples and lessons curiously engraved on copper plates. By John Frederick Lampe, Sometime Student at helmstad in Saxony.

    Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751. | Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
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    Thorough-Bass made easy or, practical rules for finding and applying its various chords with little trouble; together with variety of examples in notes, shewing the manner of accompanying concertos, solos, songs, and recitatives: by Nicolo Pasquali.

    Pasquali, Nicolo, ca. 1718-1757. | Date: [1757]

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