Usually means: Bass line supporting baroque music.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. continuo: Merriam-Webster
  2. continuo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continuo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continuo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. continuo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Continuo, continuo: Wordnik
  7. continuo: Wiktionary
  8. continuo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. continuo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. continuo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Continuo, continuo: Dictionary.com
  12. Continuo (album), Continuo (game), Continuo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Continuo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. continuo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. continuo: Rhymezone
  16. Continuo, continuo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. continuo: FreeDictionary.org
  18. continuo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. continuo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. continuo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Continuo (disambiguation), continuo: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (continuo)

▸ noun:  (music) Synonym of basso continuo.
▸ noun:  (historical) A member of the personal guard of the medieval and early modern Spanish or Portuguese kings.

Similar:
concertato, ground, continuative, ostinato, continuum, glassichord, contone, infinite canon, viola, legato, more...

Opposite:
discontinuo, non-continuo, interrupted, broken, disjointed

Types:
harpsichord, organ, lute, cello, bass viol, viola da gamba, more...

Phrases:
basso continuo, more...

Adjectives:
basso, harpsichord, own, baroque, simple, usual, independent, unfigured, instrumental

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Similar:
concertato, ground, continuative, ostinato, continuum, glassichord, contone, infinite canon, viola, legato, more...

Opposite:
discontinuo, non-continuo, interrupted, broken, disjointed

Types:
harpsichord, organ, lute, cello, bass viol, viola da gamba, more...

Phrases:
basso continuo, more...

Adjectives:
basso, harpsichord, own, baroque, simple, usual, independent, unfigured, instrumental



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