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Example sentences for "continuo"

Lexicographically close words:
continues; continueth; continuing; continuities; continuity; continuous; continuously; continuum; contione; conto
  1. In the name of God Glorious and Allemyghty.

  2. Nature is to him the one power absolutely supreme and independent in the Universe, too vast and too manifold to be subject to any will but her own,-- Libera continuo dominis privata superbis.

  3. The Continuo contains an immense number of additional figures, and there are a few corrections in the other parts, which I have never found in any other copy.

  4. Cantiones Sacrae for 5 Voices with Basso Continuo for Organ.

  5. My own experience of them in performance is that the least possible accompaniment is best, and it should be remembered that the Continuo is not written for a modern pianoforte with its powerful tone, but for the Harpsichord or Organ.

  6. Lanfrancus textum continuo emendat," seems hardly borne out by the facts.

  7. If a Continuo part, however badly figured, was put before him he could improvise a Trio or Quartet upon it.

  8. The declamation of the recitatives is expressive, and the latter have fine Continuo parts.

  9. Ludovico Grossi, called Viadana from the place of his birth, seems to have been the first to use the term basso continuo and on the authority of Prætorius and other writers was long credited with the invention of the thing itself.

  10. The basso continuo had been in use for some time before this.

  11. Throughout the work the words of the Saviour are accompanied by strings alone in four parts, with the continuo (which was never omitted in those days).

  12. The cembalo was used to play the basso continuo in all concerted music outside the church; and even in a concerto for clavier, a second cembalo appears to have accompanied.

  13. It was probably intended for the open air (perhaps for a funeral) as it is the only cantata with no continuo part.

  14. But one of the soldiers latus eius aperuit, et with a spear opened his side, continuo exivit sanguis et and immediately there came out aqua.

  15. If God be glorified in in eo, et Deus clarificabit him, God also will glorify him eum in semetipso: et continuo in himself: and immediately clarificabit eum.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    continuous current; continuous line; continuous series; continuous stream