Basso: alternatives and connections

A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying…

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, be…

the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns

A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or tr…

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.

Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns,…

Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contr…

The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containin…

The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extrem…

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the…